As the final week of the U.N. Global Plastics Treaty negotiations is being held in Geneva, Australian filmmaker and environmental advocate April Howard hopes that firsthand stories from the Pacific will support the negotiators who are pressing for stronger controls on the production, use, and disposal of plastics.
While progress has been made since the treaty was first mooted in 2022, countries including the United States, Saudi Arabia, and Iran, have pushed back against measures to limit plastic production.
They have pushed against production control and want the plastics pollution problem to be addressed entirely through downstream waste management measures instead….
Pacific Countries ‘Drowning’ in Plastic Spurs Australian Film Director to Head to UN Treaty Negotiations
