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The fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment (INC-5), opened today in Busan, Republic of Korea. The session aims to conclude negotiations and finalize the text of the agreement. The session, which takes place from 25 November to 1 December, […]
Negotiators meet in less than a month to agree on the world’s first treaty to end plastic pollution, but countries remain so far apart that a deal may prove impossible. It has been two years since the UN first agreed to work towards a treaty, and negotiators have met four times already to hammer out […]