The first global "plastic ban"
At the UN Environment Assembly, which ended on March 2, 2020, delegates from 175 countries adopted a resolution to end plastic pollution.
The resolution aims to create an intergovernmental negotiating committee with the goal of completing a legally binding international agreement by the end of 2024 to tackle plastic pollution.
In addition to working with governments, the resolution will allow companies to participate in discussions and seek investment from outside governments to research the recycling of plastics, the UN Environment Programme said.
Inger Andersen, executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme, said that this is the most important agreement in the field of global environmental governance since the Paris Agreement in 2015.
"Plastic pollution has become an epidemic. With today's resolution, we are officially on the road to a cure," said Espen Barth Eide, Norway's climate and environment minister, president of the UN Environment Assembly.
The United Nations Environment Assembly meets every two years to set priorities for global environmental policy and to develop international environmental law.
This year's conference opened in Nairobi, Kenya's capital, on February 28. Governing the global plastic pollution problem is one of the most important topics of this meeting.
According to the report data of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, in 2019, the amount of plastic waste in the world was about 353 million tons, but only 9% of plastic waste was recycled. At the same time, the scientific community is increasingly concerned about issues such as ocean plastic debris and the potential impact of microplastics.
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