Canada's environment minister Steven Guilbeault expressed disappointment that international negotiations on a treaty to end plastic pollution did not result in an agreement this week. Although negotiations are set to resume next year, Guilbeault remains hopeful for a future deal.
Canada 's environment minister Steven Guilbeault says he's disappointed that international negotiations on a treaty to end plastic pollution finished this week without an agreement. Guilbeault arrives to a caucus meeting on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
As the clock wound down on negotiations, countries were still at an impasse over whether the treaty should reduce the total plastic on Earth and put global, legally binding controls on toxic chemicals used to make plastic. Negotiators made plans to resume talks in 2025.“I think we ran out of time. But I don’t think that the work that’s been going on this week is lost,” he said in an interview Sunday.
Both the United Nations biodiversity and climate change summits ended earlier this month with financial commitments below what developing countries said they needed to tackle those issues. After meeting in Brazil last month, the G20 leaders' statement also failed to explicitly repeat a call for a transition away from fossil fuels, one of the hard-fought agreements to come out of last year’s UN climate summit.
Canada’s own ban on some single-use plastics is tied up in court. Plastic makers and chemical companies successfully argued that the government was too broad when it declared all plastic to be toxic, the designation Canada used in order to enact that ban. The case is currently before the Federal Court of Appeal.
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