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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. ...

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.