Plastic treaty would be historic for planet: UNEP chief
Nairobi (AFP) - The world has a rare opportunity to clean up the planet for future generations by uniting behind an ambitious treaty to tackle plastic trash, the UN environment chief told AFP. Inger Andersen said a global plastics treaty being negotiated in Nairobi "holds the potential and the promise of being the biggest multilateral environmental breakthrough" since the Paris climate accords signed in 2015. "This is a big moment. This is one for the history books," the executive director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) told AFP in an interview. The framework for a legally binding plas...