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Progress made over new treaty to end plastic pollution
Activist Dianne Peterson places a sign on an art installation outside a United Nations conference on plastics, April 23, 2024, in Ottawa, Ontario
INTERNATIONAL negotiators made progress today towards drawing up a new treaty to end plastic pollution.
After four rounds of talks, the United Nations Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution began discussing the text of what is supposed to become a global pact.
Delegates and observers in the Canadian capital Ottawa called it a welcome sign that the talks had shifted from ideas to treaty language.
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