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 ...

Worldwide plastic production is on course to triple by 2060, but there are no immediate plans to resume efforts to create a ...

Negotiators from more than 170 countries are arriving in Geneva, Switzerland, this week to resume discussions over the United Nations plastics treaty, eight months after they missed their original ...

LAST month, global efforts to craft a legally binding international treaty to regulate plastic pollution, which necessarily means regulating plastic production and use, failed after a majority of ...

Utterly disappointing. What was meant to be the culminating chapter of three years of intense global negotiation ended in ...

David Fickling is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering climate change and energy. Previously, he worked for Bloomberg News, the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times. The world’s governments ...

Fabrice COFFRINI/AFP/AFP The 184 countries gathering to forge a landmark treaty on combating plastic pollution were told Tuesday they must find a way to tackle a global crisis wrecking ecosystems and ...

Global representatives have spent five sessions and almost three years negotiating a legally binding treaty on plastic pollution. From Aug. 5-14, they will make a sixth attempt at the Palais des ...

The shift from a global approach to national programmes means reducing plastics at source becomes optional, and presents new ...

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 ...