Efforts to seal a historic global treaty to end plastic pollution are now in peril, with just days left before negotiations ...

Under President Donald Trump's leadership, the United States has withdrawn from international negotiations and commitments, ...

Plastic items are seen on Place des Nations in front of the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, ...

Procedural rules for the plastics treaty negotiations say that, for substantive issues, delegates “ shall make every effort ” ...

Delegates from around the world are gathering in Geneva for a critical round of negotiations aimed at securing the first ...

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

No matter how the plastics treaty talks in Geneva conclude in the next week — deal or no deal, far-reaching accord or ...

At the halfway point of the resumed fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-5.2) in Geneva to deve ...

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

The resumed fifth session of the United Nations Environment Programme committee to create a global treaty to deal with ...

World leaders are in Geneva this week trying to hammer out the world’s first legally binding treaty to tackle the plastic ...

Plastics made from petrochemicals account for more CO2 emissions than does aviation, making treaty talks underway this week an opportunity for climate action.