Countdown to Busan: is a plastic pollution treaty in reach?

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Countries hope to reach the world’s first treaty to end plastic pollution later this year.
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Source: AFP

Negotiators meet in less than a month to agree on the world’s first treaty to end plastic pollution, but countries remain so far apart that a deal may prove impossible.

It has been two years since the UN first agreed to work towards a treaty, and negotiators have met four times already to hammer out details.

But observers say progress on substance has been…

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