Talks last year in South Korea were supposed to be the final round, but they adjourned in December at an impasse over cutting ...

Negotiations for a global treaty to end plastic pollution are now in overtime, and UN member states are set to meet again in ...

U.N. negotiators have 10 days to craft a global plastic treaty. Environmental advocates say reaching an agreement to cap ...

Delegates from 176 UN member states, NGOs, scientists and industrialists are meeting in Geneva until 14 August to negotiate ...

Next week, governments from around the world will meet in Geneva for the final global plastic pollution treaty negotiations ...

The second part of the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally ...

At dawn, before Kisii town stirs to life, Brian Makori a street boy used to bend over heaps of garbage at Nyambera dumping site on the outskirts of Kisii town, with bear hands sifting through plastic ...

The committee was established to develop an international legally binding instrument—known as the plastics treaty—to end plastic pollution, one of the fastest-growing environmental threats.

A leading expert in the health impacts of plastic pollution and microplastics is calling on the UN to end the use of toxic chemicals in all plastics, cap and reduce plastic production and argues ...