21. 在环境署和其他联合国实体多年来为解决塑料污染问题所做工作的基础上，会员国在第五届联合国环境大会上通过了一项到 2024 年结束塑料污染并缔结一项具有法律约束力的国际协定的历史性决议。决议涉及塑料生产、设计和处置的整个生命周期。决议设立了一个政府间谈判委员会，将于 2022 年开始工作，负责在 2024 年底前完成一项具有法律约束力的全球协定草案。这项文书将反映处理塑料的整个生命周期、可重复使用及可回收产品和材料的设计的各种替代办法，并体现加强国际合作促进获得技术、能力建设和科学技术合作的必要性。最近结束的 2022 年里斯本联合国海洋大会及其成果《我们的海洋，我们的未来，我们的责任》也提到了这项条约。
21. Building on years of work by UNEP and other United Nations entities to address plastic pollution, Member States endorsed a historic resolution at the fifth United Nations Environment Assembly to end plastic pollution and forge a legally binding international agreement by 2024. The resolution addresses the full life cycle of plastic, including its production, design and disposal. The resolution establishes an Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee, which will begin its work in 2022, with the ambition of completing a draft legally binding global agreement by the end of 2024. This instrument would reflect diverse alternatives to address the full life cycle of plastics, the design of reusable and recyclable products and materials, and the need for enhanced international collaboration to facilitate access to technology, capacity - building and scientific and technical cooperation. The treaty also resonated in the recently concluded 2022 United Nations Ocean Conference in Lisbon and in its outcome, “Our Ocean, Our Future, Our Responsibility”.