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While the world moves towards better management of plastics waste, you and I have our individual parts to play too.

Catholic environmental group lauds the government for its greener efforts

The UN resolution on ending plastic pollution has been described as the most important international environmental deal since the Paris Agreement

He described the climate and environmental crises, coupled with the ongoing economic and social fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, as “the defining issues of our time,” reminding that “our collective response will chart our course for decades to come”.

The Philippines has joined other nations in adopting a historic resolution at the United Nations Environment Assembly to end plastic pollution and forge an international legally binding agreement by 2024.

This development is a very big deal.

Many commentators recently have suggested that we should put our green ambitions on the back burner while we tackle the other enormous challenges facing the world.

Unanimously, 175 countries achieved the second most important environmental project after the Paris Agreement, to put an end to plastics. A Latin American country was the leader in this pact.

Climate change and land-use change are projected to make wildfires more frequent and intense, with a global increase of extreme fires of up to 14 percent by 2030, 30 percent by the end of 2050 and 50

The UN’s draft resolution on ending plastic pollution has been described as the most important international environmental deal since the Paris Agreement