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8 Ways To Find The Best Web Design Agencies For Your…Last week, the International Negotiating Committee of the United Nations Environment Programme wrapped up the fourth of five scheduled negotiating sessions to develop an international treaty to control plastic pollution.
Two committees have been authorized to work during intersessional meetings on draft language for discussion and possible adoption at the next, and potentially final treaty session, scheduled for late November in Busan, South Korea. The goal is to achieve a plastic pollution treaty by 2025. Representatives of 170 nations converged on Ottawa, where they greatly shortened a lengthy draft text, and reached consensus on the need for intersessional work before the fifth and final summit to agree on a treaty. Image by UNEP via. The working groups will discuss methods to implement and finance a treaty and develop criteria for products and chemicals — but to the chagrin of many environmentalists, will not work on a way to replace chemicals of concern in manufacture..
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