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The world is awash in plastic. Oil producers want a say in how it's cleaned up
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And at last year’s U.N. climate summit in Egypt, countries agreed to a watered-down final agreement after oil- and gas-producing nations beat back calls for a phaseout of fossil fuels, the main driver of global warming.
The U.S. was the world’s biggest oil and gas producer in 2022, and the State Department, too, has called for recycling to play a big part in the plastics treaty — or risk having it fall flat.
Verra’s founding members included the International Emissions Trading Association and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, which around that time represented major oil and gas producers such as Shell, Chevron and BP, among other companies.
“Over in carbon-credit land, these parties are embroiled in significant public controversy around the fundamental truthfulness and accuracy of their claims,” says Danny Cullenward, a climate economist at the University of Pennsylvania.
Neil Tangri, science and policy director at the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives, an environmental justice group, says he’s concerned that Verra is trying to privatize things that are supposed to be handled by governments negotiating the treaty.
The treaty should include “meaningful and feasible universal obligations,” the spokesperson said, adding that it is “essential” to develop “more circular approaches” to minimize waste, meaning recycling and redesigning products so they use fewer resources.
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