The chemical industry says advanced recycling will change the game, but environmentalists are skeptical Chemical companies, oil-and-gas incumbents and startups around the world are touting plans for new recycling facilities,…
Global plastic pollution talks in Ottawa came to a close April 30, and with them a group of Indigenous leaders from the Arctic are on their way home. But the…
As the gavel came down at 3:18 a.m. at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) meeting to create a global treaty to end plastic pollution, the room breathed an exhausted…
The United States and other leading oil and gas producing countries that resist caps on future plastic production had a powerful effect on the latest round of United Nations talks…
Negotiators wrapped up the fourth round of formal discussions over the United Nations’ global plastics treaty early on Tuesday morning, inching closer to a final agreement that’s intended to “end…
Progress in Ottawa But More Work is Needed Before INC-5 Ottawa, Canada-The Plastics Treaty fourth Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-4) closed early this morning, for the first time with draft text…
For the first time, negotiators from most of the world’s nations are discussing the text of what is supposed to become a global treaty to end plastic pollution. Delegates and…
After four days of streamlining the zero draft, the INC is now closer than ever to substantive negotiations on the key issues for developing the Treaty. Yesterday, while Member States…
Statement Presented by Pamela Miller, IPEN Co-chair April 26, 2024 Thank you, co-facilitators and good evening to all. My name is Pamela Miller, and I serve as Co-Chair of IPEN, a…
Every year, Delbert Pungowiyi’s community comes together to clean up the trash on the beach of his small island in Alaska. “Name a country, any country. Their country washes up…
