Tag: climate-change

Negotiations have begun this week in Punta del Este, Uruguay, to hammer out the language for a new Global Plastics Treaty

The next two-and-a-half years, spent at negotiating tables in conference centres, will define how the world makes, use and dispose of plastics for generations to come

In March this year, the United Nations Environment Assembly agreed to forge ahead with a new Global Plastics Treaty and next week sees work start in earnest to get the detail in place to address the fast-rising threat of plastics pollution

CoP27 finally concluded in the early hours of Sunday morning after overnight negotiations. The outcome, as usual, is mixed, but despite some important decisions, the overwhelming feeling is one of major disappointment

As global leaders and delegates bake under the desert sun in Egypt at the UN CoP27 climate summit, EIA can reveal that the air-conditioning keeping them cool is using refrigerant gases which are highly damaging to the climate

As global leaders and delegates bake under the desert sun in Egypt at the UN CoP27 climate summit, the air-conditioning keeping them cool is using refrigerant gases which are highly damaging to the climate.