The final round of United Nations-brokered talks aimed at tackling plastic pollution opened in South Korea with deep ...

A last round of negotiations on a legally binding treaty to address the global scourge of plastic pollution has opened in ...

Countries are hammering out a document that aims to “end plastic pollution” by not only improving how the world handles ...

Negotiators are descending on Busan, South Korea, this week to hammer out the world’s first treaty designed to tackle plastic ...

Each year the world produces around 400 million tonnes of plastic waste, much of it discarded after just a few minutes of use ...

The oil industry is causing another life-threatening problem. Plastic waste has invaded the bodies of virtually every ...

This week, the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) is meeting in Busan, South Korea for the fifth and final round ...

Negotiators are gathering in South Korea in what’s billed as a final push to address the global crisis of plastic pollution.

Plastics pollution exacerbates the impacts of all [nine] planetary boundaries,” warns a report published this month in the ...

The final round of negotiations for a worldwide plastics treaty will look to rapidly cut proliferating plastic pollution. But oil and gas interests could scupper a deal.

The divisions plaguing the plastics treaty talks echo conflicts that have long stalled U.N. efforts to curb global warming, with the most recent climate summit, COP29, having just ended with an ...

Map: The Economist One of the big ideas was to reuse plastic waste, which is not just discarded by islanders and tourists but ...