In the cache were 22 anti-tank mines, 2,500 anti-personnel stick mines, 90 anti-tank stick grenades, a 74 millimetre recoiless rifle, 60 millimetre mortar, 22 boxes of anti-shipping mines, seven ...

Two years of negotiations to reduce global plastic production have collapsed amid a split between countries. Members of the public created almost 70 artworks earlier this year to highlight plastic ...

Countries negotiating a global treaty to curb plastic pollution have failed to reach agreement, with more than 100 nations wanting to cap production while a handful of oil-producers were prepared ...

overturning their verdicts in a deadly 2004 grenade attack on a political rally. The ruling comes at a critical time as the South Asian country suffers political tension after longtime Prime Minister ...

CLIMATEWIRE | BUSAN, South Korea — United Nations members had meant to use this past week to work out how to end plastic pollution. Instead they return to their homes empty-handed from the ...

Countries have deadlocked on a United Nations treaty on plastic pollution, according to The Associated Press. The treaty, with an aim of tackling worldwide plastic pollution, faced a hurdle due to ...

In March 2022, at the resumed fifth session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-5.2), a historic resolution was adopted to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, ...

Talks fail to reach consensus on treaty scope Oil-producing nations oppose production caps Plastic production on track to triple by 2050 Decisions postponed to a future meeting BUSAN, South Korea ...

As negotiations continued this week in South Korea on a global treaty to tackle plastic pollution — including restricting the harmful chemicals present in plastic — 12 high-ranking United ...

Recycling plastic isn't working. The figure most often cited is that only nine per cent of the world's plastic has ever been recycled. That statistic is taken from a 2017 study looking at how ...

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 ...