[OPINION] Is a global treaty against plastics needed for Filipinos?

'An equivalent of a garbage truck full of plastics is thrown into the oceans every minute.' Opinion

Our negotiators have also played a key role in initiating the INC against plastics. It is aof the Peru-Rwanda Resolution adopted at this year’s UNEA, which proposed a legally-binding agreement to address plastics in all stages of their life cycle. The government must continue to lobby for a stringent global agreement, targeted to be made by 2024 to begin the end the era of plastics, complemented by genuine solutions and enhanced policies at the domestic level.

Despite almost three decades of climate negotiations, scaling up global climate action has remained lagging far behind the speed of which our climate is changing. While COP27 was intended to focus on how to implement the Paris Agreement, little progress was actually achieved in Egypt, aside from the establishment of funding arrangements to deal with climate-related loss and damage.

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