Negotiators are meeting in Busan, South Korea to conclude the world's first legally binding plastic waste treaty.
Negotiators are meeting in Busan, South Korea to hammer out the world's first treaty on reducing and controlling Earth's spiraling plastic waste.
More than two-thirds of all plastics produced is used only once or twice before it is discarded and 22% is mismanaged – which means it is dumped in landfills, leaks into the environment, or illegally incinerated.
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.
Nations for plastic production limits and oil-rich producers deadlocked in the hours before the talks were set to expire.
World leaders failed to reach agreement over who should pay what into which fund toward the global biodiversity goals.
Experts agreed science and diplomacy need to evolve to build trust, solve problems, and promote national interests.
The spike in the world’s deadliest infectious disease comes as officials warn global aid cuts could lead to a resurgence.
More than 275,000 glaciers cover 700,000 square kilometers of the planet. Glaciers and ice sheets store 70% of all freshwater.
From migrants to refugees, millions of lives and the organizations that help them are at risk from U.S. aid cuts.
