Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The U.S. and 174 other nations failed to agree on a new treaty to reduce the plastic pollution ... By the final hours of the negotiations over the weekend, 95 countries had come together and ...
California, for example, has become a global leader in reducing the use of plastic bags and other single-use plastics that often end up in the ocean. The United Nations plastic treaty negotiations ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States, one of the world's biggest plastic makers, will support a global treaty calling for a reduction in how much new plastic is produced each year in a major ...
In the lead-up to UNEA-5.2, the majority of UN Member States had expressed their support for advancing a global treaty. [18] Other groups making public declarations about the need for a treaty include the business sector, [19] civil society, Indigenous Peoples, [20] workers, trade unions, [21] waste pickers [22] and scientists. [23] [24]
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 ...
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 ]
As of May 2024, 12 states in the United States (California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington) have banned single-use plastic bags. [6] In Nigeria, reports shows that over 60 million plastic sachets are used and disposed daily, [1] and only about 12% is recycled ...
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 ...