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

Waste pickers battle for recognition at plastic treaty talks As diplomats negotiate behind closed doors in Busan on a treaty to curb plastic pollution, the waste pickers who are on the front lines of ...

The INC-5, which started based on a resolution passed during the UN Environment Assembly meeting in March 2022, started ...

What was supposed to be the final round of United Nations negotiations for a global plastics treaty ended without an ...

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 ...

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

A summit many hoped would yield a landmark treaty to tackle a global plastic pollution crisis ended in disappointment after ...

A resolution was adopted, in 2022 in Nairobi, at the United Nations Environment Assembly to develop global rules for curbing ...

Countries have failed to reach an agreement to stem plastic pollution after a small number of oil-rich nations resisted ...

Every year, over 400 million tons of new plastic are produced globally, and much of this ends up as waste, polluting oceans, ...

BUSAN: Divisions between countries have stalled negotiations on the world's first treaty to tackle plastic pollution, after a terse week of talks in South Korea's Busan. Here are some of the sticking ...