Plastic Pollution

Officials from 175 countries agreed yesterday to craft a global treaty over the next two years with the aim of ending plastic pollution. The final treaty could be a game-changer for lands and oceans awash in plastic bottles and packaging. Castoff plastics choke and entangle animals, are ingested by people…

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…

Member states at the United Nations Environment Assembly (Unea-5) in Nairobi have unanimously agreed to develop a legally binding treaty to end plastic pollution, a decision that has been hailed as the most significant environmental multilateral deal since the Paris accord and the Montreal Protocol. The conclusion of Unea 5.2…

Environment "We are making history today." Plastic bottles and other garbage float in Potpecko lake near Priboj. AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File By Hiroko Tabuchi, New York Times Service March 2, 2022 With the bang of a gavel made of recycled plastic and a standing ovation, representatives of 175 nations agreed…

Quick view lets you read headlines faster. (Raphael Alves for The Post) The completion of the BR-319 road could vastly increase the Amazon’s destruction by opening it up to violent criminal groups waiting to sweep the region and strip the forest bare. Passengers wear protective masks while travelling on a…

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In this file photo taken on September 23, 2019 the United Nations flag is seen during the Climate Action Summit 2019 at the United Nations General Assembly Hall. Ludovic MARIN / AFPThe United Nations on Wednesday agreed to start negotiating a world-first global treaty on plastic pollution in what has…

The United Nations is set to approve a plan to create the world's first ever global plastic pollution treaty, describing it as the most significant green deal since the 2015 Paris climate agreement. Member states have held talks for more than a week in Nairobi to agree the outline of…

A legally binding agreement between 175 countries encompasses all stages of plastic’s life cycle, from production to consumption and disposal Environment 1 March 2022 , updated 2 March 2022 By Adam Vaughan Plastic garbage collected on Eastern Island in Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge All Canada Photos / Alamy One…

More than 100 countries recently gathered in France at the Ocean One Summit. The summit aimed to regulate the oceans’ use better to protect the marine environment. Measures and initiatives agreed during the summit include combating plastic pollution to further protect international waters, regulating fishing in the high seas and…