The biggest issue at the talks is whether the treaty should impose caps on producing new plastic or focus instead on things ...

Negotiations to debate the terms of a global treaty to curb plastic pollution are proving difficult, the European Union ...

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

Before talks could even get started, the United States sent letters to at least a handful of countries urging them to reject ...

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

As countries try to find agreement on plastic pollution, creative interventions are turning heads — and turning the conversation to health harms, fossil fuels, and false solutions.

Talks on sealing a landmark treaty to tackle the global scourge of plastic pollution were still stuck in second gear on ...

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

As UN talks for a plastics treaty reach their endgame, campaigners call for a vote that could help limit plastics production ...

Microplastics detected in Geneva during global plastics negotiations - Air sampling in the Swiss city this week detected ...

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

Midway through the Plastics Treaty negotiations scheduled to end this Thursday August 14, IPEN notes that concerns for the ...