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

Majority of Member States on the Side of Ambition Busan, South Korea  – As time ran out for negotiators to clinch a strong ...

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

As the threat from plastic pollution mounts, the countries could only agree to postpone negotiations to a later date.

Oil-rich nations like Saudi Arabia strongly oppose efforts to reduce plastic production and use procedural tactics to delay ...

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

Countries have deadlocked on a United Nations treaty on plastic pollution, according to The Associated Press. The treaty, ...

Countries negotiating an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment, ...

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

Jodie Roussell, global public affairs lead for sustainability at Nestlé, said of the talks' collapse: "Disappointingly, ...

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

Diplomats at a United Nations conference in Busan, South Korea, failed to reach agreement on the world’s first treaty to ...