The failure of recent global talks in Busan, South Korea, to produce a landmark treaty to combat plastic pollution, has underscored the complexities and challenges of addressing one of the planet ...

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.

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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 ...

Negotiations to draft a legally binding treaty to tackle the global plastic pollution crisis have ended without an agreement, as countries failed to agree on key issues like cutting plastic ...

"It obviously did not fail," Inger Andersen told AFP, calling the two-year timeline for the deal set in 2022 "highly ambitious". "What we do have is very, very good progress," Andersen, the head ...