The negotiations in Busan, South Korea, were supposed to be the fifth and final round to produce the first legally binding treaty on plastics pollution, including in the oceans, by the end of 2024.

The red lines for countries in the plastics treaty came out in Busan, South Korea. The headlines from the just-ended talks focused on the failure to find an agreement, in what was supposed to be ...

Environment activists shout slogans during a rally calling for a strong global plastics treaty ahead of the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution which ...

Negotiators from around the globe are descending on Busan, South Korea, this week for a final scheduled meeting aimed at crafting a global treaty to curb plastics pollution. They have a long way ...

Delegates from more than 170 nations are gathered in Busan this week to hammer out the details of what could become the world’s first treaty paving the path to end plastic pollution. The talks ...

Financial support for developing nations remained a sticking point, as in the Cop29 and Cop16 talks. The plastics treaty was supposed to create a funding mechanism for a transition away from plastics.

Over 100 countries want an ambitious plastics treaty. Oil-producing nations are getting in the way. “If it wasn’t for Saudi and Russia we would have reached an agreement here.” ...

On Oct. 21, the Business Coalition for a Global Plastics Treaty announced it had signed the Bridge to Busan, a position statement from 40 nations and the European Union that favors reaching ...

Delegates from 175 countries are expected from November 25 to December 1 in Busan, South Korea, to finalize a global ... On the other side are the oil-producing countries, for whom plastics, ...

Negotiators at a U.N. plastic pollution summit in Busan, South Korea are pushing for a legally binding treaty that would set global plastic production reduction targets.

Delegates from Mexico, France, Panama and the European Union speak after a news conference Sunday in Busan, South Korea, where U.N. talks to curb plastic pollution took place.