The multi-stakeholder workshop on the United Nations Plastic Treaty INC5.2, which was concluded in Kathmandu today, has ...

Douglas McIntyre, Editor-in-Chief at Climate Crisis 24/7, reports that despite two years of negotiations among 175 countries, a global treaty to end plastic pollution has stalled. The lack of progress ...

Environmental groups are concerned that rich countries are exporting plastic to poor countries in the form of “refuse-derived ...

Groups connected to the fossil fuel industry are trying to shape an international treaty to cut plastic pollution. And oil- and gas-producing nations are at the negotiating table.

The U.S. and 174 other nations failed to agree on a new treaty to reduce the plastic pollution contaminating our environment, food, water, and even our bodies.

During plastic pollution treaty, the U.S. faces calls to do more Critics say the U.S. has been unwilling to push for measures in a global agreement that would drive big cuts in plastic waste.

Here’s what a global plastic treaty could do, and why anti-waste advocates are so hopeful. A worker at a PVC pipe factory in China’s Sichuan Province on November 30, 2022.

The fifth and potentially final round of negotiations over a global plastics treaty began on Monday, with hopes running high that countries will be able to wrap up a deal to address plastic ...

UN Plastic Treaty Talks Were Not a Failure, Experts Say at Newsweek Panel. Published Dec 05, 2024 at 12:53 AM EST Updated Dec 09, 2024 at 11:33 AM EST. By .

Plastic production is on track to triple by 2060 - unless the treaty sets production limits, as some have proposed. Most virgin plastic is derived from petroleum. WHAT IS THE CHALLENGE IN OTTAWA?

As plastic treaty talks open, countries more divided than ever. By Valerie Volcovici. April 23, 2024 6:29 PM UTC Updated April 23, 2024 Item 1 of 7 A prop depicting a water tap ...

Plastic pollutes oceans, food, your body. Yet nations are divided over a global treaty. Why all eyes are on talks for a U.N.-led accord to cut plastic waste.