Plastics failure is a canary in the climate coalmine
Financial Express Mumbai|December 04, 2024
YOU MIGHT HAVE missed it amid the noise of the Trump transition and the sound of the European and Japanese auto industries collapsing. But the failure of an obscure United Nations meeting in South Korea at the weekend is a sign of how the entire edifice of environmental diplomacy is creaking.
DAVID FICKLING
Plastics failure is a canary in the climate coalmine

The meeting in the port city of Busan was intended to hammer out the text of a treaty to prevent plastic pollution, ahead of a planned summit to formalise the agreement next year. It would then join existing UN conventions on biodiversity and the ozone layer – along with by far the most well-known such institution, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, or UNFCCC.

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