UN says new plastics pollution talks set for August

Paris (AFP) Mar 4, 2025

A new round of negotiations for an international treaty on reducing global plastics pollution will be held in Geneva in August, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said Monday. A previous round of negotiations - tasked with hammering out a legally binding treaty - ended without agreement in South Korea last year. Plastic pollution is so ubiquitous that microplastics have be