From EPR to a just transition: Takeways from the draft Treaty on Plastic Pollution

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Nairobi, Kenya, site of the next big negotiations over the first global plastic treaty. Credit: iStock
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Nairobi, Kenya, site of the next big negotiations over the first global plastic treaty. Credit: iStock

Ahead of the next round of UN plastic treaty talks, WWF explores the key issues that need to be resolved

It has been two months since the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) published the "zero draft" of the international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, referred to henceforth as simply...

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