Plastic pollution reaches 52 million tonnes a year: Can latest UN treaty change this? | DW News

One day after the massive United Nations climate conference wrapped up in Azerbaijan, delegates from 175 countries have now gathered in South Korea to hash out a treaty on global plastic pollution.

As the event kicked off today, familiar divisions have arisen suggesting that deal-making will be a difficult task. Countries that bear the brunt of plastic pollution are struggling to reach agreement with petrochemical-producing nations like China and Saudi Arabia.

Chapters:
0:00 The latest conference
2:05 Giulia Carlini, Center for International Environmental Law

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