RESOLUTION ON PLASTIC POLLUTION

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• The U.N. Environment Assembly has voted to adopt a resolution that paves the way for a legally binding agreement on plastic pollution by 2024.
  
  
• The vote was unanimous, with nations agreeing to create an intergovernmental committee to negotiate the terms of the treaty.
  
  
• Head of the U.N. Environment Programme, Inger Andersen, said that the plastics treaty would be the most significant environmental pact since the 2015 Paris Agreement.
  
  
• The details of the final treaty are yet to be negotiated, but could include a ban on producing new plastic, and will take into account all aspects of plastic pollution — including particles in the ocean, soil and food chain.
  
  
• The resumed session of fifth United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA 5.2) was held from 28^thFebruary 2022 to 2^nd March 2022 in Nairobi.