GENEVA (Reuters) – No consensus was reached during talks in Geneva on the world’s first legally binding treaty to tackle plastic pollution, according to delegates on Friday.

“South Africa is disappointed that it was not possible for this session to agree a legally binding treaty and positions remain far apart,” its delegate told a closing meeting of the negotiations early on Friday.

More than 1,000 delegates have gathered in Geneva for the sixth round of talks, after a meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) in South Korea late last year ended without a deal.

The INC is a group established by the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) in 2022 with the mandate to develop a legally binding global treaty to address plastic pollution.

Negotiations had gone into ove

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