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The UN global plastic treaty could be as important as the 2015 Paris accords, says Steve Fletcher, professor of ocean policy and economy at the University of Portsmouth

Getting rid of single use bags is among the items our throwaway society will have to dispense of to make progress healing the planet.

It’s been two years since the INC-3 in Nairobi, Kenya, saw the adoption of a draft treaty to end plastic pollution.  

Delegates from across the globe, comprising the Indian delegation, civil society members, indigenous peoples and scientists, tasked with crafting an international legally binding instrument named the Global Plastic Treaty to end the scourge of ...

Thousands of negotiators and observers representing most of the world’s nations are gathering in the Canadian city of Ottawa this week to craft a treaty to stop the rapidly escalating problem of plastic pollution. Each day, the equivalent of 2,000 garbage trucks full of plastic are dumped into the world’s…

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OTTAWA - A global treaty to end plastic waste can be ambitious and successful without firm caps on plastic production, which are hard to design and harder to get agreement on, Canada's environment minister said Friday.

A global treaty to end plastic waste can be ambitious and successful without firm caps on plastic production, which are hard to design and harder to get agreement on, Canada's environment minister said Friday.

The fourth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-4) for the development of a binding international agreement on plastic pollution, including in marine environments, has commenced today in Ottawa, Canada's capital.

Globally, it is estimated by the International Union for Conservation of Nature that, out of the over 40 million tonnes of plastic waste generated annually, 80% goes into the sea thereby, threatening the existence of aquatic life.