A global treaty to curb plastic pollution failed to materialize at recent UN negotiations in South Korea. While disappointment lingers, Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš, an ocean conservation expert, emphasizes the importance of continued efforts and collaboration.
Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš was hoping she’d be a part of history last month when more than 170 countries gathered in Busan, South Korea, to forge a legally binding global treaty to curb plastic pollution. The California-based ocean conservation expert, who was part of the U.S. delegation, told NBC News, 'We were hoping this was the last meeting.
' The global treaty didn’t happen; countries failed to reach an agreement in the fifth and final round of the United Nations Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee meetings. 'We’re going to have at least another round — sometime in the late spring or summer,’ Gutiérrez-Graudiņš said. Instead of locking up a potentially problematic treaty for decades, she said it was worth spending more time trying to figure out the financing and how to monitor transparency and countries’ responsibilities. And as the year comes to an end, the Mexican American environmental leader and founder of Azul, a nonprofit to preserve marine resources, remains positive and focused on the work ahead. Researchers estimate that if nothing is done to curb plastic pollution, it will double by 2050. A global treaty could help reduce plastic pollution by 91%. Despite headwinds like the recent impasse in South Korea and uncertainty over whether the incoming Trump administration would quash an international agreement to curb plastic pollution, Gutiérrez-Graudiņš said when it comes to protecting the environment, 'we have to work with who is in front of us, and that is putting aside our political or federal preferences.' The ocean conservation expert said that when it comes to the environment and her fellow Latinos, it’s really a nonpartisan issue. 'People understand that things are not as they used to be; people understand that we’re having more emergencies
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