Today, it has become clear which delegations are willing to ensure countries can effectively make decisions during the implementation of the treaty and which ones just want to give veto power to low-ambition, plastic-producing countries.

At the low end of the scale, we have Saudi Arabia, which led a proposal calling for decisions on the implementation of the treaty (during the Conference of the Parties) to be made only by consensus, thereby giving any country veto power to block any ambitious measure.

Thankfully, high-ambition countries are rising to the occasion. Colombia and Perú led a proposal to allow countries to make decisions on substantial issues by majority vote when consensus fails, a rule with precedent in many multilateral environmental agreements.