Nations for plastic production limits and oil-rich producers deadlocked in the hours before the talks were set to expire.
After two years of negotiations, a fifth round of talks on a plastic pollution accord was suspended as nations were unable to agree on how to deal with the exponential growth of plastic production and waste.
More than 3,000 delegates, including representatives of some 170 nations and observers from 440 organizations, adjourned only with agreement on a "chair’s text" that they said will serve as the starting point for negotiations in 2025 when the fifth round is resumed.
Three days of talks in Rome ended with nations agreeing to support a $200 billion a year global plan to protect nature.
People living in drylands doubled to 2.3 billion, more than a quarter of the world population, in the past three decades.
Negotiators are meeting in Busan, South Korea to conclude the world's first legally binding plastic waste treaty.
World leaders failed to reach agreement over who should pay what into which fund toward the global biodiversity goals.
"Europe faces a clear and present danger," E.C. President Ursula von der Leyen said as the emergency meeting began.
The averate rate of gains for women-held seats accelerated between 2000 and 2015, but slowed in the last decade.
The five-point plan, unveiled as "ReArm Europe," is Europe's largest military and economic mobilization effort this century.
After an extraordinary U.S. repudiation, Ukraine won pledges from world leaders to urgently boost Europe's self-defense.
