Negotiations in South Korea for a global treaty on plastic waste stalemated over limits on plastic production and the ...

Oil-rich nations like Saudi Arabia strongly oppose efforts to reduce plastic production and use procedural tactics to delay ...

Countries fail to agree on a target to cut plastic pollution and ban harmful chemicals as summit delayed to next year ...

There is an impasse over whether the treaty should reduce the total plastic on Earth and put global, legally binding controls ...

The meeting was the last stage in a two-year process, after more than 170 nations in March 2022 backed a historic UN ...

The chairman of talks aiming for an international treaty to rein in pollution from plastics issued a document on Friday ...

Nations, businesses and sustainability advocates are upset over the INC-5 talks falling through — could this "no deal" ...

A fifth round of talks aimed at securing an international treaty to curb plastic pollution had seen slow progress as the ...

Countries negotiating the treaty have agreed to meet again in 2025, with issues of production caps, program funding and ...

After a week of negotiations, INC-5 has come to a close with no agreement reached over a Global Plastics Treaty, and another ...

Negotiators aim to reconvene the talks next year. Observers say oil-producing nations led by Saudi Arabia and Russia had ...

During the late-night meeting, countries supportive of legal obligations to cut plastic pollution refused to accept a treaty ...