All the leaders promised a partnership to finalize a global deal later this year, which will be able to control the entire life cycle of the plastic for the first time.
Jyoti Mathur-Philip, who participated in the meeting and was leading the negotiation of the agreement, told the United Nations News, “There is a new promise to complete the agreement by August … This is something that cannot be released in the future.”
Jyoti Mathur-Philip is the Executive Secretary of the Inter-Government Dialogue Committee (Inc.).
The informal meeting, held at the UN Environment Program (UNEP), proved to be a peaceful but important diplomatic moment.
It was an indication that after two years of discussion, political will now is probably turning into a serious scientific warning.
The last meeting of the discussion will be held in Geneva from August 5 to 14, so there is pressure on the negotiators to present the first legal compulsory global agreement to tackle plastic pollution.
An agreement that includes all aspects of production, cost and waste management.
Plastic at each corner
Currently, plastic waste has taken place in almost every region of the world. Even now it is found as microplastic in the human body.
According to the UN estimate, if the action is not immediately taken, the amount of plastic entry into the sea can reach 3.7 million metric tons by 2040.
Executive Secretary Jyoti Mathur-Philip said, “We’re in the plastic. If we did not do anything to deal with plastic pollution, none of us will have the rest of the ecosystem, not ground or aquatic.”
As a result, the economic loss created is equally shocked. Between 2016 and 2040, the estimated cost of plastic damage can reach $ 281 trillion dollars.
He said, “It is very heavy in the economy. As a tourist, the fishermen lacking fish in the clean -clean -cleaning of the beach are in the case of coastal damage and wetland destruction.”
Jyoti Mathur-Philip, the Executive Secretary of the Inter-city Dialogue Committee (INC) on plastic pollution.
The last episode in Geneva
This agreement process began in 2022 at the request of the UN environmental rally. This assembly is the world’s highest decision -making organization on environmental issues.
Since then, the Inter-Government Dialogue Committee (INC) has joined five times in less than two years, which has moved rapidly from the UN criteria. “We have completed five sessions in just two years from December 2022 to December 2021,” said Executive Secretary Jyoti Mathur-Philip.
He hopes that the upcoming session in Geneva will finalize the agreement this August.
The latest meeting held in Busan, South Korea six months ago, showed a significant progress, where delegates prepared a 22-generation draft that described the draft of the agreement.
He said, “It has 32 or 33 paragraphs and is named after each paragraph, so that the country can see what this agreement will be like.”
“Now the country has started discussing the number of articles … and that’s why I hope it will be published this time.”
The draft of the agreement is still under discussion, but it includes control of the entire life cycle of plastic: from manufacturing to garbage from production. This draft is both compulsory and voluntary provision.
If everything happens according to the plan, the final draft will be presented at the end of this year or in the early 2026 diplomatic conference, where different countries will be able to formally accept it and the approval process will begin.
Unequal burden on small islands
Plastic pollution is a global problem, but in some countries, especially the small island developing countries (SIDS), inappropriate and unequal burden.
Jyoti, the executive secretary, said, “It is a fact that small island countries are not using plastic to flow on their shore, yet they have to bear the responsibility of cleaning the beach, though they are not responsible for it … it is unfairly influenced by them.”
According to the estimate, 18 to 20 percent of plastic waste ends global sea.
The Nice Conference is speeding up the effort to tackle this problem, now the world’s nigs based on Geneva where the decision can be decided in August to decide whether any decisionful steps will be taken towards preventing the plastic crisis or whether it will continue to increase.