The hoped-for treaty to come out of these talks could be the most significant deal relating to environmental protection as ...

The world’s nations will wrap up negotiating a treaty this weekend to address the global crisis of plastic pollution.

A week after Saudi Arabia, the world’s top oil exporter, was accused of being a “wrecking ball” jeopardizing global climate ...

Negotiators working on a treaty to address the global crisis of plastic pollution have inched closer to an agreement, with ...

Negotiators working on a treaty to address the global crisis of plastic pollution inched closer to an agreement Friday, with ...

Very little of the world's plastic waste—about half of which comes from single-use plastics such as packaging, straws and ...

The biggest disagreements center on whether the treaty should focus on reducing ... and distracts from more fundamental solutions to plastic pollution. “We have to stop making so much of it.

The biggest disagreements center on whether the treaty should focus on reducing ... “Our world is drowning in plastic pollution,” U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said in a video ...

“Our world is drowning in plastic pollution,” U.N. Secretary-General ... Who will pay for what, and whether the treaty will set mandatory production caps or allow countries to set and abide ...

A final round of talks on a treaty to curb plastic pollution opened on Monday, with deep differences between nations emerging almost immediately. The meeting started just hours after a chaotic end ...

The world’s nations will wrap up negotiating a treaty this weekend to address the global plastic pollution crisis. Their meeting concludes Sunday or early Monday in Busan, South Korea, where many ...

Some groups, including the scientists’ coalition, support a treaty that will reduce production ... One of the most pernicious forms of plastic pollution is microplastics: tiny chunks that ...