“We have to present [the international treaty against plastic pollution] by Sunday”, declared the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Inger Andersen, on Wednesday 27 November, at a press conference organised at the halfway point in the final week of negotiations on this treaty, in Busan.
A sense of urgency is emerging in South Korea, where the negotiations have been divided into four contact groups. Each of the four groups has been given several...