French minister says ‘short-term financial interests’ killed latest effort to tackle global plastics pollution
Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.euractiv.com/section/eet/news/global-plastics-treaty-talks-in-geneva-end-in-abject-failure/
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The French minister who was present during the Légion d’honneur ceremony at which Total’s CEO, Patrick Pouyanné, received a medal. The Pouyanné that explicitly said that thanks to the plastic industry, the oil industry should still thrive for a long time. Also, the same French minister that’s also heir of the second biggest oil company in the country.
It’s almost comically evil and corrupt at this point, if the situation wasn’t so dire already.