Efforts to build a global treaty to combat plastic pollution fell apart over the weekend. While international agreements are ...

Analysis: Deep divisions, obstructions by fossil fuel-producing countries and the missing voices of campaigners and experts ...

Plastic pollution is choking the planet. From the bottom of the Mariana trench to the top of Mount Everest, there is little ...

Oil-producing countries were reportedly the key obstacle to finding common ground at the gathering in South Korea.

Although the latest talks have ended without a final agreement, countries have pledged to continue talking — and that is no ...

Negotiators working on a treaty to address the global crisis of plastic pollution for a week in South Korea won't reach an ...

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

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

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

Delegates attending the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiations Committee (INC-5) in Busan, South Korea leave the ...

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

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