Article 475G3 ‘Stop treating seas as a sewer,’ MPs urge in bid for protection treaty

‘Stop treating seas as a sewer,’ MPs urge in bid for protection treaty

by
Fiona Harvey Environment correspondent
from Environment | The Guardian on (#475G3)

Paris agreement for the sea recommended as rates of plastic pollution to skyrocket

A new global agreement to protect the seas should be a priority for the government to stop our seas becoming a "sewer", according to a cross-party group of MPs.

Plastic pollution is set to treble in the next decade, the environmental audit committee warned, while overfishing is denuding vital marine habitats of fish, and climate change is causing harmful warming of the oceans as well as deoxygenation and acidification.

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