Diplomats at a United Nations conference in Busan, South Korea, failed to reach agreement on the world’s first treaty to ...

A summit many hoped would yield a landmark treaty to tackle a global plastic pollution crisis ended in disappointment after ...

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

Countries have deadlocked on a United Nations treaty on plastic pollution, according to The Associated Press. The treaty, ...

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

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

For almost two years, countries have been trying to negotiate a United Nations treaty to rein in plastic pollution. The talks were supposed to end with an agreement, but that didn't happen.

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

Over 100 nations wanted to cap production while a handful of oil producers were prepared only to target plastic waste.

The U.S. is among 175 nations haggling over a treaty to reduce the vast quantity of plastic pollution that ends up in our ...

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

Plastic pollutes oceans, food, your body. Yet nations are divided over a global treaty. Why all eyes are on talks for a ...