The U.N. General Assembly launched a new group dedicated to tackling marine plastic pollution by building support for a new global agreement.
UNITED NATIONS (AN) — The U.N. General Assembly launched a new group on Monday dedicated to tackling marine plastic pollution by building political momentum and support for a new global agreement.
The launch of the new Group of Friends to Combat Marine Plastic Pollution, co-chaired by Norway, the Maldives, and Antigua and Barbuda, coincided with the United Nations' World Oceans Day, which is meant to remind people that oceans are the planet's lungs.
Some in the developing world fear that the war in Ukraine is diverting attention away from the dangers of climate change.
The U.N. health agency praised world leaders for a 'historic' commitment to working together against future pandemics.
Oil producers took issue with a prediction by the energy agency's chief that demand for fossil fuels will peak by 2030.
African leaders say they have a market-based plan to fight human-caused global warming that will spread economic development among millions of people on the continent.
Some in the developing world fear that the war in Ukraine is diverting attention away from the dangers of climate change.
The U.N. health agency praised world leaders for a 'historic' commitment to working together against future pandemics.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. President Joe Biden each took the stage at the U.N. General Assembly to emphasize there are global stakes in the outcome of the war.
Despite the absences, the politics of catastrophe and climate inaction toward Earth's impaired health await the assembly's annual gathering of world leaders next week in New York.
