TALKS in Japan aimed at salvaging efforts towards a landmark global treaty on plastic pollution were “constructive”, a source involved in the negotiations told AFP Tuesday, with another meeting scheduled for May. Supposedly final talks in South Korea in 2024 towards an agreement failed, and a renewed effort in Geneva last August likewise collapsed in overtime.
Delegates from dozens of countries held three days of “informal” discussions in Japan ending Tuesday, which were not expected to result in any official announcement.
However, a source involved in the talks said they had gone better than feared.
“Given the context of the more or less collapse of the negotiations in August, I think this is a restart of the conversation,” the source said. The talks were “constructive” and “could provide… a pathway towards agreement”, they added. “It could have been a lot worse.”
AFP
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