On the content of the agreement, he explained: “A zero draft, in which various options were presented for pollution and production related to all kinds of plastics – including the chemicals used – with several options to states, has been published.”
“Especially the big oil-producing states, including Iran, China, Saudi Arabia and Russia, have formed a group of ‘like-minded countries’ that the items in the zero draft should be removed from the negotiations, and they have taken a stance that it should be rewritten,” he said.
Noting that those states expressed that there is no need for a zero draft, no need to talk about plastic pollution and reducing the production of plastic, he said instead they demanded that if there is going to be a zero draft, it should mention the “cyclicality and benefits of plastic.”
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