The negotiations in Busan, South Korea, were supposed to be the fifth and final round to produce the first legally binding treaty on plastics pollution, including in the oceans, by the end of 2024.

Negotiators from around the globe are descending on Busan, South Korea, this week for a final scheduled meeting aimed at crafting a global treaty to curb plastics pollution. They have a long way ...

Negotiators who arrived in Busan, South Korea for what was supposed to be the final Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-5) meeting this past week to ink a binding treaty that would curb ...

UN plastics treaty talks collapse as countries fail to agree ... Delegates agreed to meet again next year to continue talks ...

The red lines for countries in the plastics treaty came out in Busan, South Korea. The headlines from the just-ended talks focused on the failure to find an agreement, in what was supposed to be ...

Financial support for developing nations remained a sticking point, as in the Cop29 and Cop16 talks. The plastics treaty was supposed to create a funding mechanism for a transition away from plastics.

On Oct. 21, the Business Coalition for a Global Plastics Treaty announced it had signed the Bridge to Busan, a position statement from 40 nations and the European Union that favors reaching ...

Over 100 countries want an ambitious plastics treaty. Oil-producing nations are getting in the way. “If it wasn’t for Saudi and Russia we would have reached an agreement here.” ...

Environment activists shout slogans during a rally calling for a strong global plastics treaty ahead of the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution which ...

D elegates from more than 170 nations are gathered in Busan this week to hammer out the details of what could become the world’s first treaty paving the path to end plastic pollution.

Much has changed since countries first agreed to negotiate a plastics treaty in 2022, and even since the last meeting in April.This summer, the United States indicated it would support production ...

Environment activists make a human sign on a beach in Busan on Nov 24 calling for a strong global plastics treaty as negotiations began on Nov 25 – little knowing that there would be no treaty ...