What to know about the plastic pollution crisis as treaty talks conclude in South Korea
The world’s nations will wrap up negotiating a treaty this weekend to address the global crisis of plastic pollution.
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Advocates Say Plastics Treaty Draft Falls Far Short as Talks Near Deadline
The current text excludes key demands, including a binding limit on plastic production and a ban on dangerous additives.
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A tax on new plastic would slash waste – if built into the global treaty on plastics
Earlier this week, the mining magnate Andrew Forrest made headlines calling for a global polymer premium or plastic tax to be ...
Saudi Arabia Leads Pushback Against Global Plastic Treaty
Delegates from more than 170 countries are working to salvage a treaty that would tackle the growing problem of plastic ...
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World races against own 2024 deadline for first global treaty on ending plastic pollution
It was Espen Barth Eide, President of the Fifth Session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA 5), who gave the ...
Greenpeace activists board tanker demanding cut in plastic production
Greenpeace activists board tanker demanding cut in plastic production - Activists scaled ship’s mast, painted ‘PLASTIC KILLS’ ...
Can countries agree to "end the world's plastic pollution crisis"?
The U.S. is among 175 nations haggling over a treaty to reduce the vast quantity of plastic pollution that ends up in our ...
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Health snubbed in Busan plastic negotiations, artists and scientists unite to have it included
In an interview with the Nation, Jane Muncke, a South African independent scientist working with Food Packaging Forum and is ...
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Nations Unite for a Global Plastic Pollution Treaty
Countries are finalizing a treaty to combat global plastic pollution in Busan, South Korea. The treaty aims to create a ...
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Greenpeace challenges petrochemical tanker as Busan plastics treaty talks enter final stage
Daesan, South Korea, 30 November 2024 – As the final negotiations for a UN Global Plastics Treaty enter a critical phase in Busan, South Korea (1) Greenpeace International activists have boarded a ...
Negotiators get closer to agreeing on a plastic pollution treaty
Negotiators working on a treaty to address the global crisis of plastic pollution have inched closer to an agreement, with ...
UN talks struggle for breakthrough on plastics treaty as deadline looms
The chairman of talks aiming for an international treaty to rein in pollution from plastics issued a document on Friday ...