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175 nations have agreed to establish an historic global treaty to tackle the source of plastic pollution | Credit: UNEP
UN to start work on blueprint for treaty hailed as ‘most significant multilateral deal’ since the Paris Agreement on climate change in 2015
Hundreds of countries around the world have agreed to draw up an international treaty to tackle the devastating impacts of plastic pollution, in an "historic" UN-led decision today that could lead to legally-binding...
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