Countries remained at loggerheads Monday over how to tackle plastic pollution, with only four days left to craft a landmark ...

As a global treaty to reduce plastic pollution inches forward, the hunt continues for workable substitutes.

Indigenous communities from North America are at talks on a global treaty on plastic pollution in Geneva, pleading the case ...

Amidst the ongoing UNEP INC5.2 session on the Global Plastics Treaty, 127 Malaysian organisations hope that real change will ...

Plastic pollution, a growing and often overlooked health threat, is costing the world an estimated $1.5 trillion annually, ...

World leaders meeting in Geneva, Switzerland​ this week have been discussing a treaty meant to end the problem of plastic ...

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

In Geneva, negotiators from 175 nations are trying to hammer out the first-ever legally binding treaty on plastic pollution.

Negotiations for a global treaty to end plastic pollution are now in overtime, and UN member states are set to meet again in ...

With the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC 5.2) on Plastic Pollution underway in Geneva, ...

As plastic waste piles up in the world’s landfills, sewer systems and oceans, the United Nations has set a goal to reduce plastic pollution by 80 percent by the year 2040. Inger Andersen, head ...

A key split is whether a treaty should require cutting plastic production — or if redesign, recycling and reuse can solve the problem.