Chair of global plastics treaty talks seeks to hasten consensus following 'difficult' working draft

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A final text must materialise this year, but officials are still wrangling over the wording for a treaty on ending plastic pollution.

The head of the negotiations urges dialogue and compromise among stakeholders with competing interests.

The latest version, a 77-page unedited compilation of submissions published last month, is “quite a difficult text to work with”, Valdivieso had heard from country negotiators.

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Author / Journalist: Liang Lei

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Published On: 2024-08-30 @ 07:20:00 (2 days ago)

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