The treaty will be “an insurance policy for this generation and future ones, so they may live with plastic and not be doomed by it,” said one official.
By Julia Conley. Published 3-2-2022 by Common Dreams
The vast majority of the world’s countries agreed Wednesday to forge a legally-binding global treaty restricting plastic pollution, in a move one official said demonstrated “multilateral cooperation at its best.”
Negotiators representing 175 nations met over the past week in Nairobi, Kenya to discuss a joint proposal originally presented by Rwandan and Peruvian representatives. Continue reading