Not that it would have mattered anyway. Nothing exists to enforce these kind of agreements in any serious fashion after the fact, they’re pretty much meaningless outside of PR.
A large bloc wants bold action such as curbing plastic production, while a smaller clutch of oil-producing states want to focus more narrowly on waste management.
The High Ambition Coalition, which includes the European Union, Britain and Canada, and many African and Latin American countries, wanted to see language on reducing plastic production and the phasing out of toxic chemicals used in plastics.
The cluster of mostly oil-producing states calling themselves the Like-Minded Group – including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Russia, Iran, and Malaysia – want a much narrower remit.
These countries railed against the negotiations being based on the entire life-cycle of plastic: from the petroleum-derived substance right through to waste.
Jfc. So the oil/plastic producers win.
Here’s what you do:
- create a list of ways to reduce pollution.
- Ask oil execs to rank them
- Remove the options preferred by oil execs
Why not cut out the middleman, literally, and just remove the CEO?
Let’s replace them with AI.
Business as usual. Venus by Tuesday.
The prophet has spoken.