Talks aimed at a global treaty to cut plastic pollution fizzled in Geneva this week, with no agreement to meaningfully reduce ...

Diplomats from around the world concluded nine days of talks in Geneva — plus a marathon overnight session that lasted into ...

The biggest issue of the talks has been whether the treaty should impose caps on producing new plastic or focus instead on ...

Progress toward a legally binding global treaty on plastics pollution stalled and went into reverse this week. The United Nations Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee meeting in Geneva, Switzerland ...

This week in Geneva, negotiators from around the world are gathered for the fifth session of the Global Plastics Treaty -- ...

Plastic pollution has become one of the major threats to our oceans, rivers, and lakes. Every year, tons of plastic waste ...

Go behind the scenes with executive editor Vernon Loeb and reporter Bob Berwyn as they explain why global talks on plastics pollution reached a disappointing end.

Recycling is billed as the holy grail of a circular economy, but experts agree: we can’t recycle our way out of the plastics ...

The Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) session in Geneva, which aimed to deliver a binding global treaty on ...

A bout 400 tons of plastic waste is produced each year. There is a large body of data that is not only damaging to the environment, but also endangers human health. The global negotiations to cut ...