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NAIROBI - The United Nations Environment Assembly, meeting in Nairobi, has adopted a resolution detailing what to do about plastic pollution. It calls f

It sets the stage for international negotiations designed to produce a treaty by 2024.

United Nations countries have agreed to create a legally binding global treaty to address plastic pollution in the world's oceans, rivers and landscape.

NAIROBI - The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) marked its 50-year anniversary Thursday at its headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. Activists have cr

It sets the stage for international negotiations designed to produce a treaty by 2024.

UN countries on Wednesday agreed to create a legally binding global treaty to address plastic pollution in the world’s oceans, rivers and landscape. The UN Environment Assembly voted unanimously at its meeting in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, for a resolution “to end plastic pollution.” It sets the stage for international negotiations designed to produce a treaty by 2024. “Today we wrote history. Plastic pollution has grown into an epidemic,” said Norwegian Minister of Climate and the En...

Activists have criticized the organization as being slow to address global threats to the environment, but at UN's Environment Assembly this week nations pledged to negotiate a binding treaty to reduce plastic pollution

It sets the stage for international negotiations designed to produce a treaty by 2024.

United Nations countries have agreed to create a legally binding global treaty to address plastic pollution in the world’s oceans, rivers and landscape. The U.N. Environment Assembly voted unanimously Wednesday at its meeting in Kenya’s capital Nairobi for a resolution “to end plastic pollution.” It sets the stage for international negotiations designed to produce a…

The UN has set its eyes on plastic pollution, with a resolution to ultimately end it plastic pollution passed by 175 countries.