The UN environment chief insisted Monday that talks on a landmark plastic pollution treaty were not a failure, saying important progress was made despite negotiations collapsing without agreement.
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Executive Director of United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Inger Andersen, speaks during an interview with AFP in Busan on November 25, 2024 in light of the ongoing Fifth session of UN Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on plastic pollution (INC-5). Talks to agree the world's first treaty to curb plastic pollution cannot fail, and must include reductions in production and consumption, the UN's environment chief told AFP on November 25. (Photo by Anthony WALLACE / AFP)
2024-12-02 10:35:12
The UN environment chief insisted Monday that talks on a landmark plastic pollution treaty were not a failure, saying important progress was made despite negotiations collapsing without agreement.
"It obviously did not fail," Inger Andersen told AFP, calling the two-year timeline for the deal set in 2022 "highly ambitious".
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