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A new treaty process offers hope to end plastic pollution

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The development of a global legally binding treaty by the UN to end plastic pollution is underway. To be effective, the global treaty requires new levels of transparency, disclosure and cooperation to support evidence-based policymaking that avoids the fragmented and reactionary policies of the past.

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The authors have received funding from UNEP and the Flotilla Foundation for plastic policy research. The authors would like to thank the University of Portsmouth Revolution Plastics research initiative for supporting this work.

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  1. Global Plastics Policy Centre, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK

    Antaya March, Keiron P. Roberts & Stephen Fletcher

  2. School of the Environment, Geography and Geosciences, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK

    Antaya March & Stephen Fletcher

  3. School of Civil Engineering and Surveying, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK

    Keiron P. Roberts

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March, A., Roberts, K.P. & Fletcher, S. A new treaty process offers hope to end plastic pollution. Nat Rev Earth Environ 3, 726–727 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-022-00361-1

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