'Big Oil must be dancing for joy': Anger builds at failure to deliver Global Plastics Treaty

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Attempts to deliver new global plastics treaty blocked by small group of petrostates, forcing negotiations to be extended into next year

Negotiations to deliver a landmark treaty to tackle plastic pollution ended in failure yesterday, with a small group of petrostates blamed for stonewalling efforts to agree a legally binding text that...

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