US memo urges countries to reject UN plastic caps
At the beginning of the UN Plastic Treaty talks in Geneva, the United States sent letters to at least a handful of countries inviting the target of a global agreement with limits on plastic production and plastic chemical additives.
In the communication circulating by Reuters at the beginning of the negotiations on Monday, the United States revealed red lines for negotiations that directly opposes measures, in communication circulating to countries seen by Reuters.
The hopes of an ambitious global treaty, which deals with the full life cycle of plastic pollution from the production of polymers to the disposal of waste, decreased as the delegates gathered for the last round of negotiations.
Significant sections against parties such as oil producing oil -producing countries and the European Union and Small Island states defending borders in virgin plastic production, which is fueled by oil, coal and gas, and the stronger management of plastic products and dangerous chemicals are continuing.
The US delegation, directed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials representing the Biden administration, sent a note to the countries that put forward its position and said that it would not accept an agreement that deals with the upward flow of plastic pollution.
“We will not support non -practical global approaches such as plastic production goals or prohibitions and restrictions on plastic additives or plastic products, such as plastic production goals or prohibitions.
“We do not see convergence on plastic, plastic production, plastic additives or global prohibitions and global list, also known as global list,” after attending a preliminary delegation meeting in Nairobi between 30 June and 2 July in Nairobi.
A Foreign Ministry spokesman Reuters said that each party should take measures according to the national context.
“Some countries may want to focus on advanced collection and recycling, while others choose to undertake prohibitions.” He said.
Greenpeace USA Oceans Campaign Director John Hohevar said that the US delegation’s tactics under Trump were “Return from the US government to the old school bullying from the US government to use the financial power to persuade the governments to persuade the US to change what the US wants to benefit what they want.”
One of the world’s leading plastic manufacturers, the United States proposed a proposed decision by Reuters, referring to an agreed approach that “appeal to the full life cycle of plastics”, proposed to review the draft target of the treaty to reduce plastic pollution.
A source familiar with negotiations told Reuters that he was trying to get back the language adopted in 2022 to re -negotiate the US authority.
The US stance is widely compatible with the positions revealed by the global petrochemical industry produced by a few powerful oil and petrochemical producer countries that hold this position during similar positions and negotiations before negotiations.
More than 100 countries supported a limit on global plastic production.
In the US, the Trump administration has many measures to reclaim climate and environmental policies.
According to OECD, plastic production has doubled the climate change that accelerated climate change by strangling oceans, damaging human health and accelerating climate change without intervening until 2060.
