Under Article 8 of the Chair's text released in December 2024, countries would be obligated to prevent littering and prohibit ...

Efforts to finalize a global agreement to tackle the staggering and growing amount of plastic waste and its impact on human health, marine life and the economy, got underway ...

EDITORIAL. Reaching a first-ever global treaty to tackle plastic pollution is crucial. Yet, countries remain divided on how ...

The world's governments are meeting this week to hammer out a treaty to reverse the rising tide of plastics. Oil companies ...

Countries are negotiating key measures to tackle plastic pollution, including setting targets to cut single-use plastic ...

Recent studies reveal alarming health costs associated with plastic pollution, yet global negotiations in Switzerland ...

An intense 10-day period of negotiation has begun in a fresh attempt to find a global agreement on plastic pollution.

Nations kicked off a meeting on Tuesday to try to complete a landmark treaty aimed at ending the plastic pollution crisis that affects every ecosystem and person on the planet.

Petrostates and well-funded lobbyists at UN-hosted talks are derailing a deal to cut plastic production and protect people ...

The exponential growth in plastic is damaging ecosystems, the climate and human health. Why is reducing production so hard?

Countries are gathering in Geneva from Aug. 5 to 14, with the hopes of passing a legally binding global agreement on plastic ...

Countries will push to address plastic pollution right from the production stage, which uses polluting oil and gas, to the ...