UN plastic talks start with call for states to 'deliver' treaty on global crisis
Nations must step up and resolve the global plastics crisis, the head of UN talks tells negotiators gathered in Geneva to forge a landmark binding treaty to curb plastic pollution. "It's one of the most urgent environmental priorities of our time," says Ecuadoran diplomat Luis Vayas Valdivieso, kicking off the 10-day negotiations. "We are here today to fulfil an international mandate. August 14 is not just a deadline for our work. It is a date by which we must deliver." SOUNDBITE
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