Cutting emissions of superpollutants provides an opportunity to more efficiently reduce greenhouse gas emissions than a focus solely on carbon dioxide. In other words, it packs a larger punch.
The influence of the global petrochemicals industry and plastic-producing countries has frustrated meaningful progress towards agreeing a Global Plastics Treaty
The UN Environment Assembly is in the process of negotiating a new Global Plastics Treaty, with the second phase of talks kicking off at the end of May to hammer out the details needed to properly address the fast-rising threat of plastics pollution
The International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting in Slovenia has voted to engage with the United Nation in pursuit of a global treaty to tackle plastic pollution.
Today we launch a ‘Scientists’ Declaration’, backed by 183 scientists and 37 research institutions, with a warning to political leaders that a global plastics treaty must be based on hard scientific evidence if it is to meaningfully tackle the planetary crisis
The predicted rise in plastic pollution spilling into the environment constitutes a planetary emergency, EIA's latest report warns