The first week of talks in Geneva fell behind schedule, producing no clear text as countries remained split on step one: the treaty’s purpose and scope ...

As nations began a second week of negotiations Monday for a global accord to end plastic pollution, an artist heaped piles of ...

Many Western democracies, including France, the U.K., and Finland, sent cabinet ministers to the treaty negotiations in ...

Representatives of 184 countries and 600 organisations are meeting in Geneva to draft a treaty on halting plastic pollution.

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

Countries remained at loggerheads Monday over how to tackle plastic pollution, with only four days left to craft a landmark global treaty on reining in the ever-growing scourge.

Delegates, experts, and stakeholders from 184 countries and 619 organizations are determined to finalize the treaty on ...

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

Now it is up to the member states to “clean” the text by Thursday, so the world can get its first treaty aimed at ending ...

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

GENEVA – Talks on forging a landmark treaty to combat the scourge of plastic pollution were stumbling Saturday, with progress slow and countries wildly at ...