(1 Dec 2024)
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Busan, South Korea – 1 December 2024
1. Various of news conference by lead negotiator for Ghana, Dr. Sam Adu-Kumi, and policy experts at GAIA (Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives)
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Sam Adu-Kumi, lead negotiator for Ghana:
"So we are not here to accept anything short of an ambitious, progressive, futuristic treaty that will solve the plastic pollution. Our people are waiting for us. It is not over yet. We keep on fighting. I can assure you. So if we are not getting anything better here, we have more time to go back, reflect, and fight on. So as we’ve all agreed, better to have nothing here than to have a treaty which is weak and only voluntary that cannot go anywhere. So here on, we’ll fight until the end. If we don’t get the deal we want here, we will postpone and come back another time. Thank you."
3. Various of news conference and Adu-Kumi speaking with journalists after
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Sam Adu-Kumi, lead negotiator for Ghana:
"I’m saying no treaty is better than a weak treaty because we are here for legally binding future instruments to end plastic pollution. So if we are here and we are getting a treaty that does not address the issues head on, then where are we headed towards? We are not getting anything that will solve the issue. We want a treaty that will be able to solve it. Otherwise, we’ll go without it and come and fight another time. That’s what I’m trying to say. Yes."
5. Wide of Adu-Kumi
STORYLINE:
Negotiations on a plastic pollution accord are drawing to a close Sunday in Busan, as nations continue debating whether to tackle the exponential growth of plastic production.
A battle over whether to limit the amount of plastic that companies are allowed to produce is the most contentious.
The latest draft of the treaty, released Sunday afternoon after negotiators spent all of Saturday trying to reach agreement behind closed doors, leaves the question to be settled in open session. It includes multiple options for several key sections. For the proposal to limit production, that includes a compromise that would set a target at a later conference and an option to drop the idea altogether.
Delegates from Senegal and Ghana said the new draft is too weak. Sam Adu-Kumi, lead negotiator for Ghana, said the draft is full of voluntary measures that won’t end plastic pollution, but the world needs a treaty that imposes obligations on all parties.
No treaty would be better than a weak treaty, Adu-Kumi added.
“We are here for a legally binding instrument to end plastic pollution,” he said during a news conference. “So if we are here and we are getting a treaty that does not address the issues head on, then where are we heading towards?”
The United Nations Environment Programme meeting concludes Sunday or early Monday in Busan, South Korea. A growing number of countries said in Busan that they want to address the total amount of plastic produced on Earth.
Every year, the world produces more than 400 million tons of new plastic. Plastic production could climb about 70% by 2040 without policy changes.
AP Video by Seong-bin Kang
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