'A collapse of collective intelligence': Green campaigners respond to failure of Global Plastics Treaty talks

James Murray
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'A collapse of collective intelligence': Green campaigners respond to failure of Global Plastics Treaty talks

Environmental groups express outrage at governments' failure to deliver an new treaty to tackle plastic pollution

Talks to deliver a landmark Global Plastics Treaty failed yesterday, after governments failed to break a deadlock that has marred two years of negotiations. Hosted in the South Korean city of Busan,...

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