Divisions persist over plastics treaty as UN talks end in Uruguay

Divisions persist over plastics treaty as UN talks end in Uruguay

The first round of negotiations on a global treaty to end plastic pollution ended in a split over whether goals and efforts should be global and mandatory, or voluntary and country-led. More than 2,000 delegates from 160 countries gathered in Uruguay for the first of five scheduled sessions of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC), a …

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