{"id":497469,"date":"2026-03-01T12:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T12:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/497469\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T12:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T12:24:13","slug":"unofficial-talks-on-plastic-pollution-treaty-to-begin-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/497469\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Unofficial&#8217; talks on plastic pollution treaty to begin in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delegates from around 20 countries will hold three days of &#8220;informal&#8221; talks in Japan from Sunday aimed at salvaging efforts towards a landmark global treaty on plastic pollution.<\/p>\n<p>Supposedly final talks in South Korea in 2024 toward an agreement failed, and a renewed effort in Geneva last August likewise collapsed in overtime.<\/p>\n<p>A Japanese Environment Ministry official said that the &#8220;informal&#8221; closed-door meeting among &#8220;working-level officials&#8221; through Tuesday was not expected to result in any official announcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Delegates from around 20 countries will hold three days of &#8220;informal&#8221; talks in Japan from Sunday aimed at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,227280,6957,20200,79],"class_list":["post-497469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-environment-ministry","tag-plastic","tag-pollution","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}