UN optimistic about reaching agreement on plastics in Geneva

The United Nations (UN) is convinced that an international agreement to limit plastic pollution can be reached within 10 days in Geneva after further negotiations. “The time is right,” said UN Environment Executive Director Inger Andersen on Monday. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox “This is a treaty that the world wants and frankly needs,” said the Dane on the eve of the resumption of crucial negotiations, for the first time in Geneva. After more than three years of discussions, an arrangement is within reach, even if there are “clearly divergences”, she told the various players involved in the process, which will involve more than 170 countries from Tuesday. “We have come to Geneva with the conviction that something can happen, that we can have an agreement,” said the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). She remains in favour of a treaty that covers “the whole cycle” of plastics, from production to waste management, and ...