Representatives from 175 countries will gather in Geneva, Switzerland, in August for the final round of negotiations on a legally binding UN treaty to end plastic pollution. Non-governmental ...

With those talks set to resume next month in Geneva—and plastic production expected to triple by 2060—leading environmental health and policy experts are urging world leaders in the new issue of the ...

Ninety-five countries released a formal declaration that they labeled a "wake up call" on June 10 for a more expansive plastics treaty, including establishing targets to limit resin production and ...

GENEVA, Switzerland, August 20, 2025 (ENS) – “Ultimately, I have heard from every country here in this room that you want to end plastic pollution. You want a deal,” Inger Andersen, head of the United ...

Talks on the world’s first legally binding treaty to end plastic pollution are hanging in the balance with just two days left before the deadline and negotiators deadlocked over the most contentious ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BUSAN, South Korea (AP) — The world’s ...

More than 170 countries are negotiating a binding agreement to slash fossil plastic production — and pollution. The oil industry claims we can recycle our way out of the problem. After a failed ...

In Geneva, Switzerland’s Place des Nations, the plaza outside the United Nations campus, a replica of Auguste Rodin’s famous sculpture, The Thinker, has been installed. Like the original, the seated ...

"The Thinker's Burden" statue by Canadian artist Benjamin Von Wong will gradually be covered by plastic waste outside the Geneva negotiations for a UN plastics treaty ...

The plastics treaty talks ended Aug. 15 in Geneva without agreement, with countries unable to overcome differences on production limits, chemical toxicity and how to pay for the agreement. As the ...

Representatives from 175 countries will gather in Geneva, Switzerland, in August for the final round of negotiations on a legally binding UN treaty to end plastic pollution. Non-governmental ...