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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 13531

26 November 2024
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SECTORAL POLICIES / Environment
In Busan, first statements by stakeholders highlight disagreements that need to be resolved before agreement can be reached on a ‘plastics treaty’
Brussels, 25/11/2024 (Agence Europe)

The moment of truth is here to end plastic pollution”, declared Inger Andersen, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), on Monday 25 November in Busan, South Korea, at the opening of the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee responsible for drawing up an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution. 

This fifth negotiating session should result in a ‘Global Plastic Pollution Treaty’. This is a “historic”...

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