The outcomes of the just concluded United Nations-organised conference in Nairobi, Kenya on an internationally binding agreement designed to rein in what is now globally regarded as a crisis resulting from the unstoppable proliferation of plastics and the attendant environmental consequences may well have missed the attention of those who may have opted for monitoring the ongoing crisis in Eastern Europe.
That said, the UN, two days ago approved a landmark agreement that seeks to create what is intended to be the world’s first-ever global plastic pollution treaty, the countries represented at the meeting describing it as the most globally significant environmental deal struck since the ground-breaking Paris Climate Change Accord.