Delegates from more than 170 countries attempting to negotiate a treaty to curb global plastic pollution ended a weeklong ...

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

There is an impasse over whether the treaty should reduce the total plastic on Earth and put global, legally binding controls ...

Countries negotiating the treaty have agreed to meet again in 2025, with issues of production caps, program funding and ...

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

An analysis by the Centre for International Environmental Law (CIEL) found that 220 lobbyists had registered for INC-5.

Many conversations need to be had before a treaty is reached, including whether there will be a limit on the amount of plastic that companies are allowed to produce.

Delegates attending the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiations Committee (INC-5) in Busan, South Korea leave the ...

A woman holds a sign during a rally to demand stronger global commitments to fight plastic waste at the fifth session of the ...

In what was supposed to be the final round of negotiations for a global treaty to end plastic pollution, delegates from over ...

Negotiations in South Korea for a global treaty on plastic waste stalemated over limits on plastic production and the ...

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