Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 23 October 2024.
Damien Egan
Labour, Bristol North East
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what diplomatic steps his Department is taking to secure an (a) ambitious and (b) legally binding target to cut plastic production at the UN Global Plastics Treaty.
Emma Hardy
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
As a member of the High Ambition Coalition to End Plastic Pollution and a signatory to the Bridge to Busan Declaration, the UK is pushing for an ambitious treaty that addresses the full lifecycle of plastics, including reducing production and consumption of primary plastic polymers to sustainable levels. The UK has played an active role in negotiations including at high-level Ministerial consultations on this matter during the UN General Assembly in New York.
Yes3 people think so
No4 people think not
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