The INC-5, which started based on a resolution passed during the UN Environment Assembly meeting in March 2022, started ...

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Nearly 200 countries spent a week locked in negotiations in Busan, South Korea , from November 25 with the goal of agreeing ...

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The Plastic Pollution and Recycling Modernization Act rules were approved by the Environmental Quality Commission to reduce ...

Delegates from more than 170 countries attempting to negotiate a treaty to curb global plastic pollution ended a weeklong ...

Oil-rich nations like Saudi Arabia strongly oppose efforts to reduce plastic production and use procedural tactics to delay ...

International negotiations to create a legally binding treaty to stem the tide of plastic pollution ended in a stalemate on ...

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Countries negotiating the treaty have agreed to meet again in 2025, with issues of production caps, program funding and ...

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