Chair of global plastics treaty talks seeks to hasten consensus following 'difficult' working draft

Published on August 30, 2024

A final text must materialise this year, but officials are still wrangling over the wording for a treaty on ending plastic pollution. The head of the negotiations urges dialogue and compromise among stakeholders with competing interests.

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Carbon tax 'less costly', more effective than emissions trading for the Philippines: WWF exec

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Chart: Solar power is shattering global records

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Solar has been gaining popularity for years now, but in 2023 the clean energy source really took off: A staggering 428 gigawatts’ worth of solar was installed worldwide last year, up by 76 percent from what was deployed in 2022, per new BloombergNEF data . That’s more than double the industry’s recent growth rates. …