World agrees to negotiate a ‘historic’ treaty on plastic pollution

Photo credit: Jonas Gratzer / LightRocket via Getty Images. Article by Joseph Winters. Grist – March 3, 2022.

World leaders concluded the fifth United Nations Environment Assembly on Wednesday with a promise to the world: By 2024, delegates will broker a binding, international treaty addressing the full life cycle of plastics — including its production and design.

“We made history today,” Espen Barth Eide, Norway’s minister of climate and environment and president of the Assembly, told delegates in an emotional address. He closed the proceedings with the bang of a gavel made of reclaimed plastic. […]

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