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March 21, 2024
UN INC-2 ends in frustration as divided nations “lose ground” amid accusations of industry “stonewalling”
The UN’s second round of International Negotiating Committee (INC-2) meetings for a global plastics pollution treaty ended in frustration last week after half of the five-day event was spent re-debating procedural rules, such as the treaty’s voting procedure. While the deadlock was eventually broken...
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A Wasted Effort: A Decade On, Task Force’s Suggestions on Garbage Disposal Have Failed
About a decade ago, in 2013, the Planning Commission constituted the “Task Force on Waste-to-Energy” to identify technically feasible, financially affordable and environmentally sound processing and disposal technologies for municipal solid waste in India. The committee headed by K. Kasturirangan, r...
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