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Nations gather in Geneva to again confront the world’s spiraling plastic pollution crisis
Talks last year in South Korea were supposed to be the final round, but they adjourned in December at an impasse over cutting ...
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Trade measures critical to ending plastic pollution
Trade must be part of the solution to end plastic pollution – a global problem which disproportionately affects developing ...
Inside Climate News3d
Nations Meet in Geneva in a Final Push to End Plastic Pollution
U.N. negotiators have 10 days to craft a global plastic treaty. Environmental advocates say reaching an agreement to cap ...
Plastic pollution is still a problem. A UN meeting in Geneva is hoping to change that
Plastic waste is littered across the beach of Costa del Este, in Panama City, in April 2021. Countries are gathering in ...
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UN summit addresses cost of plastic pollution
A doctor and professor at the University of Illinois Chicago who was part of the meetings said a treaty to end plastic ...
World Wildlife Fund (WWF)18hOpinion
WWF and civil society organizations call on countries to fix the process, keep your promise, and end plastic pollution
At the midpoint of the final round of negotiations for a UN Global Treaty to End Plastic Pollution (INC 5.2), Civil Society ...
Nations will try again on plan to confront world's plastic pollution mess
Nations gather in Geneva Tuesday to try to complete a landmark treaty aimed at ending the plastic pollution crisis that ...
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World Environment Day aims to end plastic pollution
According to the UN, we produce 400 million-plus tons of plastic every year — that’s enough to fill more than a million garbage trucks! Things weren’t always this way.
Delegates from 100 countries meet for last-chance talks to reduce plastic pollution
Delegates from 176 UN member states, NGOs, scientists and industrialists are meeting in Geneva until 14 August to negotiate ...