Nations agree to set up new UN science policy panel on waste, chemicals, and pollution

Michael Holder
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UNEP’s Inger Andersen and Uruguay environment minister Edgardo Ortuño Silva | Credit: Carlos Gomez del Campo / UNEP
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UNEP’s Inger Andersen and Uruguay environment minister Edgardo Ortuño Silva | Credit: Carlos Gomez del Campo / UNEP

Intergovernmental Science-Policy Panel on Chemicals, Waste and Pollution (ISP-CWP) aims to complete 'scientific trifecta' for the environment alongside the IPCC and IPBES

Governments from around the world have agreed to set up a new global environmental science policy panel dedicated to tackling pollution, following three-years of UN-led negotiations. The Intergovernmental...

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