Tuesday, September 24, 2024

'Convergence' Growing on Global Plastics Treaty

The UN environment chief said Sunday she was beginning to see convergence on the world's first binding treaty on plastic pollution despite differences on production caps and a tax-like plastic fee.

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... Inger Andersen, director of the UN Environment Program, said her team was "getting ready" for final negotiations in late November in South Korea's Busan.

There, countries are hoping to seal a potentially groundbreaking deal to tackle the gargantuan problem of plastic pollution.

"There are certain areas where I think we're beginning to see convergence," Andersen said from New York ahead of an annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-09-24 01:53 AM

Yeah, I remain to be convinced that such a "convergence" exists, for two reasons ...

1) this is the UN. So pronouncements about goals that may not be attained seem to be the norm.

2) this is the biggie: US Capitalism. When politicians can be so easily purchased by the wealthy since Citizens United, possession of money seems to win out over logic or rationality.


#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-09-24 01:57 AM

Future generations will scoff at the way we poisoned ourselves with plastic the way we scoff at generations who poisoned themselves with lead.

Buy products in glass or paper containers whenever you have a choice.

#3 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-09-24 02:21 PM

A solution in search of a problem. Per usual for global leftists.

#4 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-09-24 02:40 PM

A solution in search of a problem. Per usual for global leftists.

#4 | Posted by BellRinger

Of course a trumper doesn't think plastic in people's brain tissue or girls menstruating at 8 years old is a problem .

#5 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-09-24 02:48 PM

Good, about fricking time.

Look for the U.S.,
led by the Republican Sellouts to
the Oil and Fossil Fuel Lobby,
to strongly contest this, probably with
some 'don't let foreign governments dictate
our policy' rhetoric.

#6 | Posted by earthmuse at 2024-09-26 08:26 AM

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