Popular push to cut plastics runs into fossil fuel opposition at UN conference – By Saul Elbein and Sharon Udasin (The Hill) / Nov 15, 2023
Negotiators in Nairobi, Kenya, are working to advance a key international plastics treaty, as major fossil fuel producers push to derail the proceedings.
The East African nation is host of the third Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-3) — part of a United Nations negotiating process obligated by treaty to reach a deal on cutting plastics pollution by 2024.
Broad global majorities favor stark limits on plastic production — with three-quarters favoring bans on single-use plastics.
“We must change the way we consume, the way we produce and how we dispose [of] our waste,” President William Ruto of Kenya said on Monday at the meeting.
