The multi-stakeholder workshop on the United Nations Plastic Treaty INC5.2, which was concluded in Kathmandu today, has ...

Introduction Soon, representatives of many of the world’s nations will once again convene to negotiate a global treaty aimed ...

Representatives from Mexico, Panama and other "high ambition" countries delivered a statement demanding a strong treaty on plastic waste. The United Nations talks in Busan, South Korea, ended ...

New research on nanoplastics pollution and ‘chemicals of concern’ underscores the need for a strong agreement when ...

Negotiators at United Nations–led talks in Nairobi, Kenya have failed to agree on how to advance toward the development of a global treaty to end plastic pollution.

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Delegates from United Nations member countries are considering proposals for a binding global treaty to curb plastic pollution. The U.N. Environment Assembly, meeting Feb ...

Each day, the equivalent of 2,000 garbage trucks full of plastic are dumped into the world’s oceans, rivers and lakes, according to the United Nations Environment Programme.

Just a day after the conclusion of the United Nations’ annual climate conference in Azerbaijan, diplomats began convening in Busan, South Korea, for a separate bout of discussions — this time ...

It was the first meeting of a United Nations committee set up to draft what is intended to be a landmark treaty to bring an end to plastic pollution globally. “If we look 30 years from now, we ...

Current and prospective investors in plastic recycling remain uncertain about how or whether the Global Plastics Treaty being written by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) will provide ...

Final talks on a global plastic waste treaty will take place in November in South Korea. ... Then there is a third group of nations that includes the U.S. "The United States, ...

United Nations’ Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for Plastics will meet in Canada for the fourth of five meetings to negotiate a legally-binding treaty on plastics pollution.