Plastic Treaty Talks Failed Amid Production Cuts Split

• Despite a week of negotiations, nearly 170 countries failed to agree on a framework agreement to eliminate plastic pollution.

• The chasm between those who saw cutting plastic production as necessary and those who didn’t proved too wide to overcome.

• Countries have decided to resume negotiations under the tentative banner of INC-5.2, likely next year.

• The assembly of countries expressed disappointment and reservations on several paragraphs in a text synthesised by the Chair of the proceedings, Luis Vayas Valdivieso.