Chilean Ambassador Julio Cordano leads the Global Plastics Treaty negotiations, aiming for an international pact to end ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most of the other chemicals have never been assessed for toxicity. At the end of the Busan talks, 94 countries signed a declaration calling for the treaty to include legally binding phaseouts of “the ...

After months of stalled negotiations and growing frustration among governments and civil society groups, countries meeting in ...

A person sitting at a table with her hand over her face. A delegate covers her face with her hand as negotiations at the resumed fifth session of the United Nations Environment Programme ...

"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 ...