Global Plastics Treaty

Deadlock at the latest round of talks was all but inevitable, but there are routes forward for governments and businesses that want to tackle the scourge of plastic pollution

Campaigners slam failure to deliver promised treaty to end plastics pollution, as petrostates are once again blamed for blocking efforts to deliver an ambitious new accord

Geneva talks fail to deliver promised treaty to tackle global plastic pollution, as draft text angers both sides of deadlocked negotiations

Negotiators attempt to salvage plastic pollution talks, after campaigners claim latest draft text leaves key policies 'on the cutting room floor'

Two new reports raise the alarm over the way fossil fuel investments are continuing to be made based on the assumption demand will keep rising

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Environmental groups express outrage at governments' failure to deliver an new treaty to tackle plastic pollution

Attempts to deliver new global plastics treaty blocked by small group of petrostates, forcing negotiations to be extended into next year

With just days to go until the curtain comes down on the fifth and final scheduled round of talks t try and deliver a legally-binding plastics pollution treaty, observers warn of scant sign of progress on key dividing lines

Group of leading businesses meet with UK government ahead of upcoming final round of negotiations aimed at agreeing a landmark final plastic pollution treaty before the end of this year