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UN Oceans Conference Calls for Global Action on Plastic Pollution
- Nearly 100 countries endorsed the Nice Wake-Up Call at the June 10 UN Ocean Conference in Nice, demanding a legally binding plastics treaty.
- This collective action follows five rapid negotiating sessions since December 2022, with a draft treaty text of 22 pages outlining 32 or 33 articles.
- The treaty aims to regulate plastics throughout their full life cycle and includes calls to cut production, ban toxic additives, and fund frontline communities.
- Experts warned that plastic damages cost $281 trillion between 2016 and 2040, plastic waste harms ecosystems, and blue whales ingest 10 million microplastic pieces daily.
- With the next negotiation scheduled for August 5–14 in Geneva, global leaders face a critical choice to finalize the treaty or let the plastic crisis worsen unchecked.
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Canberra CityNews
PerthNowMomentum building for global plastic pollution pact
Plastic waste is projected to outweigh all fish by 2050. (Bianca De Marchi/AAP PHOTOS) By Poppy Johnston in Canberra Australia has thrown its support behind a declaration to curb plastic pollution fast and deliver on a global treaty targeting waste at the source. More than 90 countries have backed “the Nice wake-up call for an ambitious plastics treaty” at the United Nations Ocean Conference, which has taken place in the French Mediterranean coa…
More and more plastic objects are produced, such as plates, glasses, bottles or bags. When we get rid of them they can end up in a landfill, incinerated or recycled. However, due to the action of wind and rain, these residues can also reach the sea even when we throw them into the garbage. They can end up abandoned due to the action of storms, wind or rain, or simply because they have not been disposed of properly. Thus they can reach rivers or …
The Athens Messenger
The Crescent-NewsPlastic Free July encourages consumers to be mindful of plastic waste
With plastic pollution choking the world’s oceans and filling up its waste disposal facilities, environmental activists are encouraging people to take the Plastic Free Pledge this July.
The oceanographer Marina Levy presented in Nice, on the sidelines of the UN Ocean Summit, a new indicator of reference to follow the state of the seas.
Deepwater mining, plastic pollution, rescue of sharks and rays... Several measures were taken at the United Nations Conference, which is held until 13 June in Nice. ...
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