Busan, South Korea, Nov 27, 2024 (AFP) - Plastic pollution talks must speed up 'significantly': chair

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2024-11-27
Negotiators must move "significantly" faster to agree on a landmark treaty to curb plastic pollution, the diplomat chairing the talks warned Wednesday, as many countries expressed frustration with the limited progress. Nearly 200 countries are gathered in South Korea's Busan with the goal of agreeing a deal by the end of the week. The process caps two years of talks over four previous rounds of negotiations that have been stalled by deep division......
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