A *final round of talks on a treaty to curb plastic pollution has opened in South Korea*, with deep differences between nations emerging almost immediately. 🇰🇷🥤🌍 The meeting *opened just hours after a chaotic end to the COP29 climate talks in Baku*, which agreed to a boost in climate funding that developing countries slammed as insufficient. Opening the plastics meeting in Busan, the *Ecuadorian diplomat chairing the talks warned nations* that the conference was about "far more than drafting an international treaty". *Plastic pollution is so ubiquitous that it has been found in clouds,* the deepest ocean trenches and even human breastmilk. And while *almost everyone agrees it is a problem*, there is *less consensus on how to solve it.*