UN states clear the way for a plastic waste agreement

United Nations member states have cleared the way for a legally binding treaty to reduce plastic waste. „We are making history today and you should all be proud,“ UN Environment Programme (UNEA) President Espen Barth Eide said Wednesday after adopting a resolution to that effect in Nairobi. There, nations had spent more than a week negotiating the outlines of the first global plastic waste agreement. The UNEA called the agreement „the most important environmental agreement since the Paris Agreement“ of 2015. The actual treaty is now to be drafted by a committee and be ready in 2024.