Food powerhouses Nestlé, PepsiCo and Unilever are among those left reeling after negotiations failed to finalise a global treaty on plastic pollution. The treaty had been years in the making, ...

Rosa Busquets receives funding from UKRI/Horizons (CleanWater project 101131182) and DASA (UK). She is honorary academic at UCL and Al-Farabi Kazakh National University. Marcel Jansen receives funding ...

Major plastic-producing countries block push for production limits Campaigners call for an end to the consensus rule Breakaway treaty proposed, led by Europe and California China’s shift toward ...

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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 story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Diplomats from around the world concluded nine days of talks in Geneva — plus a marathon overnight session ...

Since negotiations for a United Nations treaty to address plastic pollution began more than three years ago, protecting human health has risen to the top of many countries’ priority lists. This is ...

When other publications put out lists of "sustainability leaders," I often find myself shaking my head. Too often, their idea of sustainability seems to mean simply phasing out plastics — no matter ...

Mr. Franklin-Wallis is the author of “Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future” and an editor at GQ. This essay is part of a series on environmental health. What ...

Negotiations are underway in Geneva on a legally binding Global Plastics Treaty that has been in the works for several years, as the crisis of pollution from plastics worldwide has grown more acute.

Research Associate, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh Cat Acheson receives funding from The Wellcome Trust for a project which partners with Health Care Without Harm.

In 2022, with annual plastic production reaching nearly half a million tonnes, many countries came to an agreement that only a global effort could tackle the problem. Today, delegates are gathering in ...