Negotiators must finish the financial mechanism and agree on binding measures to phase out toxic chemicals in plastics.
GENEVA (AN) — The U.N. Environment Program confirmed the schedule for organizing the resumption of the deadlocked plastic treaty talks.
The third part of the fifth session of UNEP's Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee, known as INC-5.3, is set to begin on Feb. 7 at the Geneva International Conference Center. UNEP clarified, however, that the meeting will be purely organizational and logistical, serving as a precursor to the full resumption of substantive negotiations.
The global wildlife treaty is charged with regulating trade in 40,920 species, including 6,610 animals and 34,310 plants.
A new strategy will focus heavily on controlling black market flows, leveraging a decision to phase-out dental amalgam.
The decision on dental amalgam was counterbalanced by the greater challenge of artisanal and small-scale gold mining.
A new subsidiary of the Convention on Biological Diversity ended its inaugural session deciding how to be integrated.
Refugees International labeled the plan as "vindictive" and warned it undermines faith in the legal immigration system.
From 2010 to 2024, annual AIDS-related deaths fell 54% and new infections fell 40%. That progress is now in doubt.
Since 1946, a woman has never been chosen for the top job, and four of the nine U.N. chiefs have been Europeans.
The bloc committed to tripling renewable energy capacity globally and working towards U.N. Security Council reform.
