This is Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, The War and Peace Report.

I'm Amy Goodman with Juan González.

We look now at how the second round of negotiations for a global, legally binding treaty on

plastic solution took place last week in Paris, where many of the scientists and civil society

members who attended sought to anchor the talks with a focus on climate change.

For 99 percent of plastic is made from fossil fuels.

For more, we're joined by Graham Forbes, leader for the Plastic Free Future Project at Green

Peace USA, who headed their delegation at this second intergovernmental negotiating committee

meeting of the global plastics treaty.

Welcome to Democracy Now.

It's great to have you with us, Graham.

If you can talk about the significance of the meeting and the scope of the problem.

Yeah, well, thanks.

It's great to be here.

I think really the plastic treaty represents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to tackle

an issue that is driving climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution in every corner

of the planet, including in our bodies.

When we gathered in Paris, more than 170 countries, the stakes are really high.

I think, unfortunately, what we saw at the beginning of the negotiations was oil producing

countries really tried to stall negotiations, and we spent almost two and a half days dealing

with procedural issues before we got to the substance or the meat of the negotiations

late Wednesday night.

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