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UN talks aimed at halting the degradation and desertification of vast swathes of land start in Saudi Arabia on Monday after ...

The talks were about phasing out plastic production, improving waste management, design requirements for plastic products and ...

The UN environment chief said that 200 countries who attended a week of talks to negotiate a landmark plastic treaty to curb ...

The UN environment chief insisted Monday that talks on a landmark plastic pollution treaty were not a failure, saying ...

Negotiators have failed to reach agreement on a landmark treaty to curb plastic pollution and need more time to continue ...

The fifth UN Intergovern­mental Negotiating Committee meeting to yield a legally binding global treaty in Busan, South Korea, ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called it a "moonshot moment": a 12-day meeting for the United Nations Convention ...

Saudi Arabia, Russia and Iran opposed provisions that could limit future oil growth and argued that plastic pollution should ...

The negotiations in Busan, South Korea, were supposed to be the fifth and final round to produce the first legally binding ...

Global talks to forge a landmark treaty aimed at reducing plastic pollution broke down after negotiators from more than 170 ...

BUSAN: Negotiators on a treaty to curb plastic pollution face tough debate on the last day of scheduled talks, as over 100 ...