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

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 have failed to reach an agreement to stem plastic pollution after a small number of oil-rich nations resisted ...

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

Although the latest talks have ended without a final agreement, countries have pledged to continue talking — and that is no ...

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

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

Negotiations on a treaty to end plastic pollution have concluded in Busan, South Korea without reaching an agreement.

Oil-producing countries were reportedly the key obstacle to finding common ground at the gathering in South Korea.

Delegates from more than 170 countries huddled for a week of marathon negotiations but came up short on delivering a treaty.

Negotiators working on a treaty to address the global crisis of plastic pollution for a week in South Korea won't reach an ...