Civil Society Urges New Chair to Enforce Greater Transparency, Inclusivity Geneva, Switzerland – Member States convened in Geneva, Switzerland, on the 7th ...

On Saturday, February 7, 2026, UN member states elected Julio Cordano of Chile as the next Intergovernmental Negotiating ...

The Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment, today elected Ambassador Julio ...

Countries on Saturday elected Chile's COP climate summit chief negotiator to drive forward stalled talks on striking a ...

Without the New START treaty, which caps the number of deployed nuclear warheads at 1,550 on each side, there will be no ...

A global review of more than 6,000 records shows that water pollution now affects nearly half of the world’s waters.

From a global plastics treaty and emerging science-policy frameworks to persistent health, safety and governance challenges ...

The negative consequences of plastic are everywhere and affect everyone. Microplastics are now found throughout our bodies, ...

Talks for a new treaty were frozen by the war in Ukraine. This afternoon, President Trump called for a “new, improved and ...

A survey of 26 countries found that 16% of respondents admit to burning plastic inside their own homes to manage waste or heat food.

Burning plastic waste for household fuel, or to manage household waste, may be far more prevalent in poor urban areas in ...

A study by researchers at the Federal University of São Paulo synthesized data from 6,049 contamination records on all continents over the last decade.