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Plastic pollution treaty stalled as Geneva talks end without deal

Delegates discussing the world's first legally binding treaty to tackle plastic pollution failed to reach consensus, ...

Talks on landmark plastic pollution treaty ending without an agreement

Negotiators working on a landmark treaty to address the global crisis of plastic pollution won't reach an agreement during talks that extended into Friday in Geneva.

Campaigners of a sweeping plastics treaty climb buildings, hand out soap and cover art with waste

Nations are crafting the first global, legally binding treaty on plastics pollution. Campaigners for the treaty are getting ...

Why is Putin talking about a new nuclear weapons treaty with the US?

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on the eve of a summit with U.S. President Donald Trump that their countries might ...

Putin praises White House ahead of summit, hopes to extend remaining nuclear treaty with U.S.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that the U.S. administration was making "sincere efforts" to resolve the ...
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Dozens of countries reject ‘unacceptable’ draft plastic treaty text

Our red lines and red lines of the majority of countries represented in this room were not only stomped, they were spat on ...

India says international court lacks authority to rule on Pakistan water treaty

The international Court of Arbitration lacks any legal authority to make pronouncements on the Indus Waters Treaty between ...
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Last chance for global plastic pollution treaty

“The bad scenario is that countries adopt a very bad treaty: something that looks like the text from Wednesday, but ...