BUSAN: Divisions between countries have stalled negotiations on the world's first treaty to tackle plastic pollution, after a terse week of talks in South Korea's Busan. Here are some of the sticking ...

The United Nations Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee or INC-5 fails to reach a consensus on a global plastic treaty, ...

Negotiations on a treaty to end plastic pollution have concluded in Busan, South Korea without reaching an agreement. This ...

Global talks to forge a landmark treaty aimed at reducing plastic pollution broke down after negotiators from more than 170 ...

Countries have deadlocked on a United Nations treaty on plastic pollution, according to The Associated Press. The treaty, ...

As the threat from plastic pollution mounts, the countries could only agree to postpone negotiations to a later date.

Delegates from more than 170 countries huddled for a week of marathon negotiations but came up short on delivering a treaty.

Countries negotiating an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment, ...

Faced with the possibility that the talks would collapse, negotiators decided to try to salvage them and schedule another, ...

Jodie Roussell, global public affairs lead for sustainability at Nestlé, said of the talks' collapse: "Disappointingly, ...