Negotiations to draft a legally binding treaty to tackle the global plastic pollution crisis have ... proposal released by ...

BUSAN, South Korea — With mere hours to go until global plastic treaty talks are meant to wrap up, negotiations are starting to crumble. Many delegates are settling in for an extra round of talks at a ...

Inger Andersen, the head of the UN Environment Programme, said the talks would ... said of the collapse: ‘What could have been a moment of real change for the plague of plastic has been missed ...

The fifth UN Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee ... an agreement made last year during the second round of talks in Paris. Plastic production is on track to triple by 2050, and microplastics ...

The UN environment chief insisted Monday that talks on a landmark plastic pollution treaty were not a failure, saying important progress was made despite negotiations collapsing without agreement.

The UN environment chief insisted that talks on a landmark plastic pollution treaty were not a failure, saying important progress was made despite negotiations collapsing without agreement. "It ...

BUSAN, South Korea — Global talks to forge a landmark treaty aimed at reducing plastic pollution broke down after negotiators from more than 170 countries remained deadlocked over how to curb ...

an agreement made last year during the second round of talks in Paris. Plastic production is on track to triple by 2050, and microplastics have been found in air, fresh produce and even human ...

Inger Andersen, the head of the UN Environment Programme, said the talks would ... said of the collapse: ‘What could have been a moment of real change for the plague of plastic has been missed ...

"What we do have is very, very good progress," Andersen, the head of the UN Environment ... used to make plastic. The disagreement stymied progress through four rounds of talks preceding Busan ...