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World Environment Day 2023: Solutions to Plastic Pollution
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RIO 20 – United Nations Sustainable Development

Rio 20 or Rio+20 - the short name for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June 2012 - was an historic opportunity to define pathways to a safer, more equitable, cleaner, greener and more prosperous world for all. Twenty years after the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, when countries adopted Agenda 21, a blueprint to reconsider economic growth, advance social equity, and ensure environmental protection, the UN convened governments, international institutions, and major groups to agree on an array of smart measures that could decrease poverty while encouraging decent jobs, clean energy, and more...
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Canada plastic treaty
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World leaders meet in Canada to draft treaty to combat plastic pollution

The fourth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment (INC-4), opened in Canada’s capital, Ottawa. The session aims to advance negotiations so that the Committee can finalize, at its fifth session (INC-5) in November, the text of the instrument. Members will also decide on intersessional work – informal INC sessions taking place between the official meetings – required between the INC-4 and INC-5, to support the further development of the text. INC-4 is the penultimate stage of the negotiations; it follows three earlier rounds of negotiations: INC-1, which...
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