Countries “will have to be open to accepting a more targeted treaty”, said Luis Vayas Valdivieso, Chair of Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on the Plastics Treaty, in a non-paper sent to national delegations on 24 September.
According to him a “simplification of the structure and content of the treaty” will be necessary to reach an agreement at the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC), scheduled from 25 November to 1 December in Busan, South...