Oil producer pressure, Trump rollbacks threaten global treaty on plastics pollution


FILE PHOTO: Plastic polluting a mangrove area lies in Panama Bay, Panama City, Panama December 6, 2024. REUTERS/Enea Lebrun/File Photo

GENEVA (Reuters) -Hopes for a "last-chance" ambitious global treaty to curb plastic pollution have dimmed as delegates gather this week at the United Nations in Geneva for what was intended to be the final round of negotiations.

Diplomats and climate advocates warn that efforts by the European Union and small island states to cap virgin plastic production - fuelled by petroleum, coal and gas - are threatened by opposition from petrochemical-producing countries and the U.S. administration of President Donald Trump.

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