WTO Members Set Goals for Plastics Dialogue in 2023
Co-sponsors of the World Trade Organization's Dialogue on Plastics Pollution and Environmentally Sustainable Plastics Trade at a recent meeting discussed developments in efforts to reduce plastic pollution, the WTO said. The co-coordinators said the members' main goal in 2023 is to turn a host of technical information into "concrete, pragmatic and effective" outcomes at the 13th Ministerial Conference, set to take place in February 2024.
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Many of the co-coordinators, including representatives from Australia, Ecuador, China, the U.K. and Colombia, championed the plastics talks as having "come a long way" since they began in 2020. The dialogue consists of three work streams, which cover international cooperation, capacity building, and transparency and issues pertaining to the reduction of plastic pollution. China highlighted the "importance of enhancing the Dialogue's interlinkages with other international processes, particularly global plastic reduction via the ongoing United Nations multilateral negotiations that aim to reach a binding deal by 2024," the WTO said.