We need to look backwards to the future and get rid of non-biodegradable waste products - responsibility lies at the door of manufacturers not just at the population.
More than anything, the event signals growing intention to coordinate views and act in closer alignment, and press towards future empowerment and responsibility of non-Western world leaders.
But Opec hawks Iran, Libya, and Algeria warned in a statement that market stability is a responsibility of non-Opec as well as Opec producers, implying they might oppose the production increases.