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UNHRC resolution on Plastic pollution
April 12 , 2025
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- The United Nations Human Rights Council has adopted a resolution inking the plastic pollution, ocean protection and human right to a healthy environment, for the first time.
- The resolution explicitly states that the plastic pollution, climate change and the biodiversity loss are together threatening the health of the world’s oceans — and, by extension, imperilling basic human rights.
- The resolution urged all states to take decisive, coordinated action across the entire plastics life cycle - from production and consumption to disposal.
- It also recognises the transboundary nature of plastic pollution, including the threat of microplastics to ecosystems and clean water.
- The UN Ocean Conference in Nice, France and the final round of negotiations for a global treaty to end the plastic pollution, set to take place in Geneva are the upcoming important events regarding this subject.
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