SECTORAL POLICIES / Environment

EU prepares its position to promote negotiation of a binding agreement on plastic pollution at UN

Brussels, 07/02/2022 (Agence Europe)

The EU Council bodies are preparing the EU’s position at the Fifth United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-5, Nairobi, 28 February-2 March), with a view to paving the way for the negotiation of a binding international agreement or instrument on plastic pollution.

In Nairobi, a resolution is to be adopted calling for the establishment of an intergovernmental negotiating committee and the EU27 are among the 70 countries that are already in favour of a future legally binding agreement,...