Negotiations to draft a legally binding treaty to tackle the global plastic pollution crisis have ... proposal released by the chair of the UN talks which was slammed by observers as weak.

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 ...

Inger Andersen, the head of the UN Environment Programme, said the talks would ... said of the collapse: ‘What could have been a moment of real change for the plague of plastic has been missed ...

The UN environment chief said that 200 countries who attended a week of talks to negotiate a landmark plastic treaty to curb pollution made "very good progress" despite falling to sign an agreement.

The Amazonian city of Belém, Brazil, will be the global focus of efforts to tackle the climate crisis in November 2025, when ...

Countries have failed to reach an agreement on tackling plastic pollution after more than 200 delegates met in South Korea for what was meant to be a final round of talks. They remained divided ...