19-05-2023 17:21 via news.slashdot.org

Developing Country Voices Will Be Excluded at UN Plastic Talks, Say NGOs

Scientists and NGOs have accused the UN's environment programme (Unep) of locking out those "most needing to be heard" from upcoming negotiations in Paris aimed at halting plastic waste. From a report: Last-minute restrictions to the numbers of NGOs attending what the head of Unep described as the "most important multilateral environmental deal" in a decade will exclude people from communities in developing countries harmed by dumping and burning of plastic waste as well as marginalised waste pi
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