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Plastic Pollution Treaty Not Dead In The Water: UN Environment Chief

Inger Andersen has been in charge of UNEP since 2019 (Credit: AFP)

The UN's environment chief insists that a landmark global treaty tackling plastic pollution remains achievable, despite talks twice imploding without agreement, and the chair suddenly resigning this week.

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) executive director Inger Andersen told AFP in an exclusive interview that countries were not walking away, regardless of their sharp differences on combating the ever-growing problem, including in the oceans.

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