The United States has sent letters to at least a handful of countries urging them to reject the goal of a global pact that ...

Talks last year in South Korea were supposed to be the final round, but they adjourned in December at an impasse over cutting ...

Plastics are everywhere—they're even in you right now—and are making many of us sick. Now, global negotiators are fighting over whether that matters.

After a failed attempt to finalize a global plastics treaty last year in Busan, South Korea, representatives from 170 ...

Industry groups taking the floor at the opening of global plastics treaty talks touted recycling and innovation as solutions ...

Campaigners say a strong Global Plastics Treaty would provide the legal framework for reducing the plastic problem at every ...

GREENPEACE Philippines is calling on the government to back a global target to cut primary plastic production and support the ...

U.N. negotiators have 10 days to craft a global plastic treaty. Environmental advocates say reaching an agreement to cap ...

The second part of the fifth session of the intergovernmental negotiating committee (INC-5.2) on plastic pollution has opened ...

The 184 countries gathering to forge a landmark treaty on combating plastic pollution were told Tuesday they must find a way ...

GENEVA — Hopes for a "last-chance" ambitious global treaty to curb plastic pollution have dimmed as delegates gather this ...