Our planet is choking with plastic we produce, consume and dispose of. Plastic has become entangled with tradition and modernity. While plastic has been increasingly and immeasurably integrated into our daily lives for the last three decades, littering of single-use plastic items in our ecosphere severely affects terrestrial, aquatic and marine ecosystems.
Logically, the frequency of occurrences of tropical cyclones (typhoons) or unexpected weather during the last quarter of each year would have accelerated some resolution of issues in the climate cauldron, especially loss and damage during UN-sponsored climate talks. Tropical cyclone Koppu (Lando) slammed the island nation Philippines just a day before the Bonn Climate Change Conference (October 19-23). Strom Patricia, the strongest hurricane ever recorded at sea, though it receded on landfall, could have brought huge losses in Mexico a day after the Conference.
The first ever comment to the First Draft- which can be termed the Paris Protocol- came from India as ‘lopsided’ to bring climate justice, ‘inadequate’ for developing countries and ‘lenient’ to developed countries. Usually, after the Bonn Intercessional Conference, which commences in June every year, the negotiation on climate change gets movement.