Negotiators working on a landmark treaty to address the global crisis of plastic pollution failed to reach an agreement ...

TOKYO >> Marine waste that has drifted from other Asian countries is causing problems in prefectures along the Sea of Japan. Intergovernmental negotiations held in Switzerland in August sought to ...

Diplomats from around the world concluded nine days of talks in Geneva—plus a marathon overnight session that lasted into the early hours of Friday—with no agreement on a global plastics treaty.

The amount of plastic waste generated globally in 2025 so far has officially exceeded the world’s capacity to safely manage ...

Can the United Nations process to combat global plastic pollution ever reach agreement? Or is some other way forward necessary? The Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution (INC) ...

The South African government is moving ahead with plastic regulations, despite the collapse of global plastic treaty ...

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Talks on a global treaty to prevent plastic waste ended without agreement on Friday. After three years of negotiations, around 180 countries were unable to agree on a treaty text during the final week ...

Baroness Hayman of Ullock, representing the government during a House of Lords debate on plastic pollution this week, said ...

Negotiators working on a treaty to address global plastic pollution discussed a new draft of the text Wednesday that wouldn't limit plastic ...

Environmentalists and Indigenous leaders held signs in front of the United Nations buildings in Geneva where talks for a global accord to end plastic pollution are taking place ...

GENEVA -- Negotiations on a global treaty to end plastic pollution drew to a close Thursday, as nations remain deadlocked over whether to tackle the exponential growth of plastic production. A draft ...