Majority of Member States on the Side of Ambition Busan, South Korea  – As time ran out for negotiators to clinch a strong ...

The UN environment chief insisted Monday that talks on a landmark plastic pollution treaty were not a failure, saying ...

BUSAN: Divisions between countries have stalled negotiations on the world's first treaty to tackle plastic pollution, after a terse week of talks in South Korea's Busan. Here are some of the sticking ...

The United Nations Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee or INC-5 fails to reach a consensus on a global plastic treaty, ...

Global talks to forge a landmark treaty aimed at reducing plastic pollution broke down after negotiators from more than 170 ...

As the threat from plastic pollution mounts, the countries could only agree to postpone negotiations to a later date.

Delegates from more than 170 countries huddled for a week of marathon negotiations but came up short on delivering a treaty.

Countries have deadlocked on a United Nations treaty on plastic pollution, according to The Associated Press. The treaty, ...

Countries negotiating an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment, ...

Faced with the possibility that the talks would collapse, negotiators decided to try to salvage them and schedule another, ...

Jodie Roussell, global public affairs lead for sustainability at Nestlé, said of the talks' collapse: "Disappointingly, ...