India and France on Friday said they will constructively engage other like-minded countries to strengthen the negotiations for an international legally binding instrument to end plastic pollution. In March 2019, the 4th United Nations Environment Assembly, adopted a resolution on”Addressing Single-use plastic products pollution” which “encourages member states to take actions, as appropriate, to promote the identification and development of …
The spotlight will be on Thiruvananthapuram in the context of an Indo-German project that seeks to prevent marine litter including plastics and microplastics. Kerala is one of three States, the others being Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh, where the project 'Circular Economy Solutions Preventing Marine Litter in Ecosystems' is being implemented. Thiruvananthapuram would be the city in focus where ground-level …
