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

The first legally binding treaty to combat plastic pollution failed at a U.N. summit after oil-producing nations opposed ...

The world's relentless battle against plastic pollution faced a significant setback this week, as countries negotiating a global treaty failed to reach a consensus. The fifth session of the UN ...

Donald Trump’s threat to heavily tax goods from Canada has sent that government’s politicians into a tizzy.

A gathering of more than 200 nations that convened to reach a landmark agreement on ending plastic pollution broke down on Monday without achieving its goal. The talks in Busan, South Korea, collapsed ...

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

International negotiations to create a legally binding treaty to stem the tide of plastic pollution ended in a stalemate on ...

There is an impasse over whether the treaty should reduce the total plastic on Earth and put global, legally binding controls ...

Delegates from more than 170 countries huddled for a week of marathon negotiations but came up short on delivering a treaty.

An analysis by the Centre for International Environmental Law (CIEL) found that 220 lobbyists had registered for INC-5.

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