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UN plastics treaty talks collapse as countries fail to agree targets on cutting production
Negotiations to draft a legally binding treaty to tackle the global plastic pollution crisis have ... proposal released by the chair of the UN talks which was slammed by observers as weak.
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UN plastic talks collapse as countries fail to agree targets
The fifth UN Intergovern­mental Negotiating Committee ... an agreement made last year during the second round of talks in Paris. Plastic production is on track to triple by 2050, and ...
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UN talks to secure world's first plastic pollution treaty collapse
Inger Andersen, the head of the UN Environment Programme, said the talks would ... said of the collapse: ‘What could have been a moment of real change for the plague of plastic has been missed ...
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The climate crisis: Funding, plastic pollution to dominate talks in 2025
The Amazonian city of Belém, Brazil, will be the global focus of efforts to tackle the climate crisis in November 2025, when ...
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Countries fail to reach agreement on plastic pollution treaty at UN talks in South Korea
Countries have failed to reach an agreement on tackling plastic pollution after more than 200 delegates met in South Korea for what was meant to be a final round of talks. They remained divided ...
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Plastic crisis needs binding treaty, report says
It's reported, for instance, that about 20 elephants in Thailand have died after eating plastic waste from a rubbish dump. The authors urge nations to agree a UN treaty with binding targets for ...