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Negotiations to draft a legally binding treaty to tackle the global plastic pollution crisis have ended without an agreement, as countries failed to agree on key issues like cutting plastic ...
The nations of the world were supposed to complete negotiations on a Global Plastics Treaty on December 1. They didn't. The main sticking point was some countries' demand for a global cap on the ...
He said that over the 1,000 days since INC-5's mission to hammer out a treaty was established, "more than 800 million tonnes (882 million tons) of plastic has been produced, over 30 million tonnes ...
BUSAN, South Korea − Countries negotiating a global treaty to curb plastic pollution failed to reach an agreement late Sunday, with more than 100 nations seeking to cap production while a ...
Without intervention, a 2024 report from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development projects that global plastic production will soar from 435 million tonnes in 2020 to 736 million ...
Following UNEA-5.2, The mandate specifies that the INC must begin its work by the end of 2022 with the goal of "completing a draft global legally binding agreement by the end of 2024." [ 4 ] Work towards the treaty began with the meeting of an ad hoc open-ended working group in Dakar, Senegal from May 30 through June 1, 2022. [ 5 ]
The Scientists' Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty is a network of international, independent scientific and technical experts on plastic pollution. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] They aim to provide scientific information to countries involved in the negotiations towards a global agreement to end plastic pollution . [ 1 ]
The first round of negotiations on a global plastics treaty ended on Friday with agreement to end plastic pollution but a split on whether goals and efforts should be global and mandatory, or ...