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Even a small amount of positive environmental news is a good thing in a grim world.
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This week, the United National Environmental Programme was launched
(Doesn’t everything just look better when it’s British?)
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Announcement175 countries had approved the resolution
Titled “
Plastic pollution is ending: Towards an international legal
Instrument binding.” If you have the ambition to be the
The title didn’t make the resolution clear, but this quote might.
It will be stated in the UNEP press release.
Illustrative diagram showing how Microplastics pollute water
Environment step by step
Today is a victory for planet earth over single-use
plastics.
While time will tell if this is true, I don’t know.
Be critical of the ambition;
Such ambition is required because of the plastics problem.
If there’s a way to address another environmental problem,
Plastics must be the solution to climate change. Given the above,
Thatplastics
GHG emissions from these sources are nontrivial,
Climate change can also be addressed by addressing plastics.
The resolution calls for negotiations of the
“instrument” by the year 2024. It’s not going
to be simple. The 19 items that need to be addressed are listed below.
The instrument is a demonstration of how much work it takes to create.
do. The problem can be reduced to one, according to me.
Plastics with significant issues offer many benefits.
These benefits could be outweighed by their costs. It does seem that.
This may be true. It’s true that it is possible to have a positive impact on the environment.
In the absence of an international legally binding instrument these costs will not be covered
The manufacturers will not internalize them.
Plastic waste is only going up.
It may not be possible to get a meaningful “instrument in place”.
It’s not difficult, but let us at least celebrate the resolution.
The beginning of the work.
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