The estimated annual social and environmental costs of plastic pollution range from US$300 billion to $US1.5 trillion.
A global treaty to cut plastic pollution could eliminate four-fifths of the world's plastic waste in less than two decades mainly through far more reuse, recycling and replaced materials, according to a U.N. report.
Doing so would pay off because the annual social and environmental costs of plastic pollution range from US$300 billion to $US1.5 trillion, the U.N. Environment Program reported on Tuesday.
U.N. leaders urged nations to bring the Sustainable Development Goals 'back to life' and chart a post-2030 agenda.
A proposed 2% minimum tax on billionaires will be taken up at Brazil's G-20 Leaders' Summit in November.
The effects of climate change hit hard from the bombed streets of Gaza to the glitzy venues of the Paris Olympics.
The U.N.'s annual report card shows the Sustainable Development Goals improved from 85% off track last year.
The U.N. chief calls on all nations to adopt a newer measure for phasing out powerful climate-warming chemicals.
The original target for the campaign was 640,000 children, which may have been an overestimate due to the war.
Global cooperation on health, defense, climate change and more would be at risk under a second Trump presidency.
A U.N.-led group says the world won't be able to get to net-zero emissions without first cleaning up the mining business.
