A small number of petrochemical-producing nations, such as Saudi Arabia, have strongly opposed efforts to reduce plastic ...

The corridors of the Busan Exhibition and Convention Centre, where the treaty to curb plastic pollution is being negotiated, teem with corporate representatives. There are the chemical and ...

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which resulted in the Paris Agreement, a legally binding international treaty to limit global warming to below 2°C. Yet almost 30 years later, as the number of observer-participants, including ...

Opening the plastics meeting, the Ecuadorian diplomat chairing the talks warned nations that the conference was about "far more than drafting an international treaty". "It is about humanity rising ...

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A last round of negotiations on a legally binding treaty to address the global scourge ... Trump is welcomed by Macron to Paris with presidential pomp and joined by Zelenskyy for their talks ...

The UN Environment Program (UNEP) has said a treaty would be the most significant multilateral environment deal since the 2015 Paris climate accord, given the huge scale of the plastic crisis.

and whether negotiators should seek their support if a treaty is unlikely to be ratified by Washington. Despite the challenging start, the UN Environment Programme chief counselled patience. "We are ...

and whether negotiators should seek their support if a treaty is unlikely to be ratified by Washington. Despite the challenging start, the UN's Andersen counselled patience, noting the Paris ...