Minister Guilbeault should address plastic pollution with a robust, legally binding plastics treaty now: Senator Galvez

During Climate Week in New York, the environment and climate change minister should push for concrete results to control and reduce plastic production, writes ISG Senator Rosa Galvez.

Canadian artist Benjamin Von Wong’s public art installation 'The Giant Plastic Trap' is pictured outside the fourth session of the United Nations Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution at the Shaw Centre in Ottawa on April 23.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ISG SENATOR ROSA GALVEZ

September 25, 2024

As we approach the last scheduled round of negotiations for the plastics treaty, it has come to my attention that Canada—along with the government of Norway—is convening a Ministerial Consultation to identify points of convergence during the New York Climate Week.

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