What a week it has been at UNEA-5 - in the face of the devastating crisis in Ukraine, governments managed to make perhaps the most signifiant decision since the Paris Agreement.

Governments agreed to negotiate a legally binding instrument to end plastics pollution. We look forward to supporting SIDS in contributing meaningfully to these negotiations, and to much more discussion around the development of the new treaty in this group.

This Guardian article provides a good summary;
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/02/world-leaders-agree…