{"id":185344,"date":"2024-11-26T11:51:27","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T09:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-decisive-fifth-session-of-negotiations-on-global-plastic-pollution-treaty-opens-in-busan\/"},"modified":"2024-11-26T11:51:27","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T09:51:27","slug":"nigeria-decisive-fifth-session-of-negotiations-on-global-plastic-pollution-treaty-opens-in-busan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-decisive-fifth-session-of-negotiations-on-global-plastic-pollution-treaty-opens-in-busan\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Decisive Fifth Session of Negotiations On Global Plastic Pollution Treaty Opens in Busan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">&#8220;The excessive reliance of humanity on the convenience of plastics has resulted in an exponential increase in plastic waste&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment (INC-5), opened today in Busan, Republic of Korea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">The session aims to conclude negotiations and finalize the text of the agreement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">The session, which takes place from 25 November to 1 December,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411260178.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The excessive reliance of humanity on the convenience of plastics has resulted in an exponential increase in plastic waste&#8230;&#8221; The fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment (INC-5), opened today in Busan, Republic of Korea. The session aims to conclude [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":185345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,50052,15571,6212,3762,257,4687,393,6975,9933,10362,6473,254,6134],"class_list":["post-185344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-busan","tag-decisive","tag-global","tag-negotiations","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-opens","tag-plastic","tag-pollution","tag-session","tag-south-africa-today","tag-treaty"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}