Chile’s climate summit chief to lead plastic pollution treaty talks

In France24/AFP, a story notes that Chile’s COP climate summit chief negotiator Julio Cordano has been elected as Chair of the Plastics Treaty INC, hoping to revive the stalled talks toward a global treaty.

Cordano said the talks needed a rejigged and more efficient way of working, calling for “flexibility and pragmatism”.

Bjorn Beeler, executive director at IPEN, a global network aimed at limiting toxic chemicals, said: “The plastics treaty has escaped the consensus trap.

“Voting has finally enabled a breakthrough and breakout from the past’s pitfalls,” he told AFP.

“The road ahead is now open to tackle the global plastics crisis poisoning our planet and our bodies.”

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