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UN Environment Assembly adopts resolution to negotiate global plastic pollution treaty

Kirsten Williams | Vermont Law School, US | Sustainability Editor

March 3, 2022 10:15:51 am

The United Nations Environment Assembly Wednesday approved a resolution to establish the first-ever global agreement on plastic pollution, along with a series of draft resolutions concerning biodiversity, health, the green economy, and circularity. Building off of prior resolutions aimed at tackling the “long-term elimination of plastic pollution,” the four-page resolution expresses the will of representatives from [...]

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