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Baroness Grender (LD)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 11 September 2025

Debate

Global Plastic Pollution Treaty

Contribution

My Lords, given the collapse of the talks in August, does the Minister agree that a global agreement will not be reached if the petrochemical lobbyists continue to outnumber the independent scientists at the talks? What threshold of plastics needs to be found in human brains and reproductive systems for the oil-rich nations to treat this as an emergency and get everyone back to the table?

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