Time ran out after a week of negotiations to finalize the UN Global Plastic Treaty in Busan, South Korea. The INC-5 chair announced that an additional round of treaty negotiations, INC 5.2, would be held to give governments more time to agree upon the final text. Eighty countries had given an ultimatum at INC-5, stating that they would not accept a global plastic pollution treaty that excludes strong and ambitious measures, such as global bans on the most harmful plastics and chemicals.
