US EditionNations gather in Geneva to again confront the world's spiraling plastic pollution crisis
- Nations have initiated a 10-day negotiation in Geneva to establish a global treaty targeting plastic pollution, aiming to address issues arising from a prior failed consensus in South Korea.
- Microplastics have permeated every corner of the planet, with significant health risks estimated to cost the world at least $1.5 trillion annually due to plastic-related issues, according to a report in The Lancet.
- Nations commenced discussions in Geneva with the goal of creating a treaty to combat plastic pollution, as reported by the AFP.
- International delegates are determined to develop a binding global agreement to tackle plastic pollution, but strong opposition remains from oil-producing nations regarding production limits.
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Participants in the negotiations on plastic pollution are determined to finalize a treaty
GENEVA — Delegates, experts, and stakeholders from 184 countries and 619 organizations are determined to finalize the treaty on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment. They made this clear at the opening of the second part of the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC 5.2), tasked with drafting this instrument, which is being held from Aug. 5 to 14 in Geneva, Switzerland. “We are here today to fulfill a…
The first week of international discussions to arrive at a pioneering text to combat plastic pollution has just ended in Switzerland. Philippe Bolo, Member of Parliament Modem and member of the French delegation, takes stock of the blockages and hopes.
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | From thinking to action in the fight against plastics
In Geneva, Switzerland’s Place des Nations, the plaza outside the United Nations campus, a replica of Auguste Rodin’s famous sculpture, The Thinker, has been installed. Like the original, the seated figure holds his chin in hand, but the hand in this version also clutches several empty plastic bottles. A baby lies across his other arm, resting its head in the Thinker’s left hand. The Thinker gazes down, past the baby, onto a sea of plastic waste…
Every year, 22 million tons of plastic waste is released into the environment, poisoning soil and oceans, threatening biodiversity and human health.
“Plastics. There is a great future in plastics. Think about it, do you want to think about it?” The ironic phrase heard by a young Dustin Hoffman during a scene in the film El Graduado (1967) became a premonitory environmental tragedy. More than half a century later, delegates from 179 countries negotiate in Geneva a global treaty to stop the pollution of polymers, at an international meeting that next week enters its decisive phase. If no agree…
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