Negotiations on international plastic pollution treaty to wrap up this year
Bibliographic record
Abstract
By the end of 2024, the United Nations Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) on plastic pollution should have the final text of a treaty telling the world how to deal with the hundreds of millions of metric tons of plastics produced each year . The wording could have major ramifications for the chemical industry in the coming years. In the 2022 resolution to develop the treaty , the committee noted that “the high and rapidly increasing levels of plastic pollution represent a serious environmental problem at a global scale, negatively impacting the environmental, social and economic dimensions of sustainable development.” The first three INC meetings took place in 2022 and 2023. INC-4 will be in Canada in April; negotiators plan to finalize the treaty wording at INC-5, which is scheduled for November, in South Korea. INC-3 ended in November 2023 without the expected first draft of the treaty text . Disagreement
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.009 | 0.017 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.015 | 0.009 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.009 |
| Research integrity | 0.025 | 0.027 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.046 | 0.020 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".