Plastisphere · Germany (Language: English)
Episode: “How [Not] To Make A Plastics Treaty: The Mysterious Midnight Meeting”
Sometimes the most important part of a negotiation isn’t in the official room, it’s whatever happens after everyone else has gone to bed. That is exactly what this episode digs into: a strange midnight meeting during the last round of global plastics treaty talks that somehow ended up pushing out the person running the whole process.
Host Anja Krieger, a science journalist based in Berlin, talks with Magnus Løvold from the Norwegian Academy of International Law, who has spent years quietly watching how these negotiations really work behind the scenes. Together they untangle what happened that night, why it mattered, and what it says about whether countries can actually agree on rules to fix the world’s plastic problem.
It sounds like dry diplomacy on paper, but it plays more like backroom political drama, the kind where a single vote can shift years of negotiation.
Listen to the episode: https://wissenschaftspodcasts.de/podcasts/plastisphere/how-not-to-make-a-plastics-treaty-the-mysterious-midnight-meeting_10240571/
