“Each year, plastic pollution grows worse, trashing the ocean, harming wildlife, and threatening human health. The UN Environment Assembly (UNEA) launched negotiations on a global treaty to end plastic pollution in March 2022, with the goal of concluding an agreement by the end of 2024. However, efforts to finalize an agreement stalled last month in Busan, Republic of Korea. After two years and five rounds of talks, countries still do not even agree on the treaty’s scope. … When negotiators reconvene in mid-2025, they must make meaningful progress. What options do they have?”

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