The world currently produces over 450mn tonnes of plastic annually ... a requirement under UN rules for binding agreements – was unattainable. The collapse of the talks was described by Panama ...

The UN environment chief insisted Monday that talks on a landmark plastic pollution treaty were not a failure, saying important progress was made despite negotiations collapsing without agreement.

The fifth UN Intergovern­mental Negotiating Committee ... an agreement made last year during the second round of talks in Paris. Plastic production is on track to triple by 2050, and ...

BUSAN, South Korea — With mere hours to go until global plastic treaty talks are meant to wrap up, negotiations are starting to crumble. Many delegates are settling in for an extra round of talks at a ...

Negotiations to draft a legally binding treaty to tackle the global plastic pollution crisis have ended without ... refused to accept a draft proposal released by the chair of the UN talks which was ...

Delegates from nearly 200 nations debated for a week in South Korea on how to stop millions of tonnes of plastic waste from entering the environment each year. The talks were meant to end with the ...

"What we do have is very, very good progress," Andersen, the head of the UN Environment ... used to make plastic. The disagreement stymied progress through four rounds of talks preceding Busan ...