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Countries fail to agree on global treaty to curb plastic pollution
A woman holds a sign during a rally to demand stronger global commitments to fight plastic waste at the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee in Busan, South Korea, on November 23, 2024.
Delegates attending the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiations Committee (INC-5) in Busan, South Korea, leave the coastal and mountainous city disgruntled and without an agreement on a legally binding treaty to end plastic pollution.
In a closing plenary session that ended a few minutes after 3am on Monday morning, INC chair Luis Vayas Valdivieso said in his introductory remarks that there was a general agreement to resume the negotiations at a later date in 2025.
