Oil-producing nations, particularly Saudi Arabia and Russia, have blocked a UN-backed treaty to curb plastic pollution, prioritizing their economic interests over environmental concerns.
A small group of major oil-producing countries, including the leaders of the OPEC alliance – Saudi Arabia and Russia – have blocked a United Nations-backed summit from agreeing on a binding treaty to put limits on the production and use of plastics. To address plastics pollution, the UN convened a summit in Busan, South Korea, where delegates have been discussing the idea of a plastics treaty since November 25.
“There should be no problem with producing plastics,” Abdulrahman Al Gwaiz, the delegate from Saudi Arabia, said during the meeting’s final plenary session. “The problem is the pollution, not the plastics themselves,” Bloomberg quoted Abdulrahman Al Gwaiz as saying. Russia, for its part, argued at the summit that efforts to limit plastic production were motivated by economic reasons.
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