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Global plastic governance negotiations have once again ended in failure.
Jin10 reported on August 16 that despite being postponed for a day, the new round of global plastic pollution governance negotiations failed to reach a Consensus on the 15th local time. This round of UN negotiations was supposed to be the final round of discussions aimed at establishing the first legally binding international protocol for plastic pollution (including marine plastic pollution). However, like last year's meeting in South Korea, the negotiations once again did not yield results. It is reported that the talks have stalled on key issues such as whether to limit the exponential rise in plastic production and whether to implement global legal constraints on toxic chemicals used in plastic manufacturing.