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

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

Countries told they can't afford to miss the opportunity to tackle plastic pollution next year - but can they resolve a sharp ...

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

Negotiators at a U.N. plastic pollution summit in Busan, South Korea are pushing for a legally binding treaty that would set ...

Faced with the possibility that the talks would collapse, negotiators decided to try to salvage them and schedule another, ...

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

An analysis by the Centre for International Environmental Law (CIEL) found that 220 lobbyists had registered for INC-5.

What was supposed to be the final round of United Nations negotiations for a global plastics treaty ended without an ...

As global plastics treaty talks enter their final hours, the European Union joins other countries in vow to push for a ...

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

Oil-producing nations, particularly Saudi Arabia and Russia, have blocked a UN-backed treaty to curb plastic pollution, ...