Canadian officials negotiating a global treaty to end plastic pollution at the United Nations say they didn't push other ...

More than 180 nations at UN talks in Geneva from Aug 4 to 15 failed to agree on a globally binding treaty to curb growing amounts of plastic waste and impose bans or phase-outs for the most toxic ...

Global talks to slash plastic production and the toxic chemicals used to produce plastic products fell apart in Geneva this ...

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

Since negotiations for a United Nations treaty to address plastic pollution began more than three years ago, protecting human ...

BANGKOK: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has reaffirmed Thailand's commitment to the Ottawa Convention and called on Cambodia ...

OTTAWA--America's chief envoy in Ottawa said the Canadian government's retaliatory tariffs against the U.S. and decisions to either ban or reconsider the purchase of U.S. goods threaten the future of ...

For the second-consecutive time, the supposedly 'final' session failed to deliver, as countries could not come to a consensus regarding an agreement on plastic production, consumption and pollution.

The plastic crisis is not an abstract problem. It’s in our floodwaters, in our food, in the air we breathe. Every year, the ...

Lobbyists and petrostates want to avoid a strong focus on human health in the impending global treaty on plastic pollution.

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

Defence experts are preoccupied with force multipliers, but climate change is a threat multiplier that’s already straining ...