NAIROBI: Global efforts to craft the world’s first treaty to end plastic pollution are under mounting strain, with ...

Significant disputes remain about the scope of any treaty, but everyone agrees that negotiations can’t continue as they have ...

GENEVA -- Negotiations on a global treaty to end plastic pollution drew to a close Thursday, as nations remain deadlocked over whether to tackle the exponential growth of plastic production. A draft ...

The UN's environment chief insists that a landmark global treaty tackling plastic pollution remains achievable, despite talks twice imploding without agreement, and the chair suddenly resigning this ...

Plastic items are seen next to an artwork by Canadian artist and activist Benjamin Von Wong, titled “The Thinker’s Burden”, during the Fifth Session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on ...

GENEVA (AP) — Negotiations on a global treaty to end plastic pollution will draw to a close Friday, as nations remain deadlocked over whether to tackle the exponential growth of plastic production.

Talks on striking a global treaty on combating plastic pollution were extended an extra day into Friday but with no clear endgame in sight. Ten days of negotiations at the United Nations in Geneva ...

Talks on a treaty to address the global crisis of plastic pollution in Geneva ended without an agreement Friday as the session was adjourned with plans to resume at a later date. Nations worked for 11 ...