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In negotiations, India has failed to support comprehensive solutions to the problem. Its own citizens suffer the worst health consequences of plastic pollution.
The fourth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-4) for a Global Plastics Treaty ended with some questioning the headway made on the future of plastic production and recycling.
Ottawa, 23 April 2024 – The fourth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment (INC-4), opened today in Canada’s capital, Ottawa. The session aims to advance negotiations so that the Committee can finalize, at its fifth session (INC-5) in November, the text of the instrument.
OTTAWA, April 23 (Xinhua) -- A new round of negotiations for a legally binding international treaty to eliminate plastic pollution must make meaningful progress, the head of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) said Tuesday.
Let’s start by talking about where we are with climate change. Greenhouse gas emissions and the global average temperature are hitting new highs. Extreme weather events are occurring more often, developing faster and becoming more intense. We all know who suffers the most, and it isn’t those who caused the problem in the first place.