Benjamin Von Wong, a Canadian artist and activist, is heaping piles of plastic waste onto a large sculpture in front of the U ...

Negotiators working on a treaty to address global plastic pollution are discussing a new draft of the text that wouldn’t ...

A Swiss ocean protection group is handing out bars of soap to negotiators working on a global accord to end plastic pollution ...

A Swiss ocean protection group is handing out bars of soap to negotiators working on a global accord to end plastic pollution ...

Nations are crafting the first global, legally binding treaty on plastics pollution. Campaigners for the treaty are finding ...

Talks last year in South Korea were supposed to be the final round, but they adjourned in December at an impasse over cutting ...

The draft contains one mention of plastic production in the preamble, reaffirming the importance of promoting sustainable ...

Sri Lanka's Minister of Environment, Hon. Dr. Dammika Patabendi, is participating in the second part of the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-5.2) on plastic pollution, ...

World leaders are in Geneva this week trying to hammer out the world’s first legally binding treaty to tackle the plastic ...

Since March 2022, the global community has been negotiating a global plastics treaty within the framework of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)—but no agreement has been reached so ...

The negotiations in Geneva must conclude with a treaty built on specific binding rules supported by the majority of countries to be able to effectively tackle global plastic pollution.