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P a g e | 95 Stakeholder demand, including almost two hundred countries, is growing for a new global ecological and air quality agreement related to marine litter and microplastic particulate matter PM 2.5 and PM 10 accumulations 202 on par with the Paris Agreement. It came up for vote at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference known as COP26. Figure 62 – ICVs v EVs Are an Environmental Balancing Act Source: Science Direct 202 NEE 60% of PM2.5 and 73% of PM10, UK Air Quality Expert Group (AQEG) report to Parliament, 2019.