Inger Andersen, UNEP Executive Director, urges mobilizing finance, policy reform, and circular solutions to tackle plastic ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The United Nations released a comprehensive roadmap aimed at reducing plastic pollution by 80% by 2040. One key aspects by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is promoting ...

Researchers for the first time have put a price tag on the environmental damage done by the millions of tons of plastic floating around the world’s oceans: $13 billion a year. But they also said ...

With the United States blocking many of the issues that needed to be resolved at the UNEP Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee, the Geneva conference ended with little results. Following 10 days of ...

Move by largest donor to environment programme poses further uncertainty for already troubled negotiations ...

As I prepare to join the next round of United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) negotiations for a Global Plastics Treaty in Paris, one thing weighs heavily on my mind: It appears that powerful ...

The head of the United Nations agency organizing the plastics treaty talks is warning countries that the agreement needs firm targets and control measures, or it risks repeating mistakes that have ...

Discarded fishing gear, plastic bags and cigarette butts form a growing tide of marine litter worldwide, says a new report. Consequently, the United Nations Environmental Programme (Unep) has called ...

NAIROBI, Kenya, February 17, 2011 (ENS) – Enormous amounts of the fertilizer phosphorus are discharged into oceans due to inefficiencies in farming and a failure to recycle wastewater, the United ...

Nations could agree in December on a world-first treaty to reduce the amount of plastic leaking into the environment which, if nothing is done, is forecast to triple by 2060. How did we get here? And ...

Curse of plastic: The beach at Hann Bay, a densely-populated district of the Senegalese capital Dakar — Seyllou The world has a rare opportunity to clean up the planet for future generations by ...