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

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

With negotiations underway for a global plastics treaty, business leaders and scientists explain how we can stop the plastic ...

Negotiators gathering in South Korea seek an end to the world's plastic pollution crisis, though Trump's election may muddle ...

The meeting was the last stage in a two-year process, after more than 170 nations in March 2022 backed a historic UN ...

Lobbyists and influence peddlers for plastic makers were the largest single delegation at the negotiations, according to an ...

Negotiators aim to reconvene the talks next year. Observers say oil-producing nations led by Saudi Arabia and Russia had ...

Though the Biden Administration backtracked its support of a cap on plastic production only a week before UN negotiations ...

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

During the late-night meeting, countries supportive of legal obligations to cut plastic pollution refused to accept a treaty ...

The global plastics treaty, drafted by the United Nations Environmental Assembly, is crucial for future environmental goals. After concluding negotiations in Busan, South Korea, on Sunday, UN ...

Oil-producing nations, particularly Saudi Arabia and Russia, have blocked a UN-backed treaty to curb plastic pollution, ...