(MENAFN) Many nations discussing a worldwide agreement to reduce plastic pollution have failed, with at least 100 countries urging to put limits on plastic manufacturing but only a few of oil-producing nations were able to target plastic waste.

The fifth United Nations Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-5) conference that took a place in Busan, South Korea was supposed to be the last session. It was hoped that the conference would result in a legally tying international treaty.

If it didn’t fail, it would have been the most important global climate vow since the Paris Climate Accords in 2015, but on Sunday, the group of nations decided to defer negotiations to a later time.

Saudi Arabia, in specific, was charged with blocking the way. It strongly stood against all the efforts to lower plastic manufacturing and used procedural tactics to hold off progress.

The only project that had a significant global agreement was suggested by Panama on Thursday. If accepted, it would have created a roadmap for a worldwide aim to reduce plastic production, but the project’s target was not clear. Another project did not remark caps manufacturing at all.

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