It has been more than two months since we boarded a plastics industry tanker in Daesan, South Korea, to highlight the urgent need for an effective ...

The road to Busan was paved with good intentions, but the fifth Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) session for a United Nations (UN) Global Plastics Treaty (INC-5) ended without an ...

The European Union supports majority voting for a global plastics treaty while suggesting ... that the talks in the South Korean city of Busan, the last of what had been five planned rounds ...

United Nations officials say they are considering Geneva, Switzerland, for the next round of plastics treaty talks.

While discussions are still ongoing, UN officials said, the possibility of holding INC-5.2 in Geneva in mid-July is being explored.

A global coalition of scientists is still working to realise a “once in a life-time opportunity” to address the plastics crisis after a stalemate prevented progress during the United Nations Global ...

But the inconclusive result in Busan leaves an uncertain landscape ... continue to advocate global bans and phase-outs for certain plastics and chemicals, robust financing from developed to ...

Late last year, global talks to establish the world’s first treaty on plastic pollution failed to reach an agreement. edie speaks with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Carsten Wachholz to explore how ...

Many plastics are used for packaging. Every day, the equivalent of 2,000 garbage trucks full of plastic are dumped into the world’s oceans, rivers and lakes. Negotiations on a treaty to end plastic ...

With an expected one flight daily, the new route will increase the total number of flights between Vietnam and the RoK to ...

An article by the Center for International Environmental Law, cited by Dr Forrest in his letter, claimed 220 fossil fuel and chemical industry lobbyists registered to attend the event in Busan ... in ...