In 2022, U.N. negotiators set a timetable to finalize a global plastics treaty by the end of 2024. That hope was dashed on Dec. 1 at the United Nations summit in Busan, South Korea, as a few oil ...
The Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution, which had met at the South Korean city of Busan and parleyed for a week and more to reach a treaty to curb plastic pollution after two ...