At a meeting of the UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi, nearly 200 governments agreed to a draft treaty with legally binding requirements to tackle plastic pollution.
At a meeting of the UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya, this week, countries thrashed out a draft deal of the first treaty to directly tackle the 9 billion tonnes of plastic produced since the plastic age ramped up in the 1950s. The final agreement is expected to be finalised tomorrow, firing the starting gun on establishing a treaty by 2024 or 2025.
“We now have one text, it speaks to full life cycle, it speaks to legally binding, it speaks to a financing mechanism, it speaks to understanding some countries can do it more easily than others,” says Anderson. “It has been a long, hard road, but I’m very happy with the text we see now.” However, she stresses it remains a draft.
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