From fishing subsidies to agricultural reforms, the World Trade Organization failed to reach common ground.
Negotiators came away from a World Trade Organization conference of government ministers without advancing a single major initiative, aside from renewing a longtime moratorium on digital media taxes.
Despite prolonging its 13th Ministerial Conference, hosted by the United Arab Emirates, for an extra day, WTO concluded its weeklong gathering in Abu Dhabi on Saturday after failing to reach any consensus on fishing subsidies, agricultural reforms, and other major trading issues.
The chair of the talks called for optimism despite divisions among plastic-producing nations and those urging restraints.
The wars in Europe and the Middle East, climate change and soaring national debts hung over the annual talks.
A new U.N. report shows how prioritizing debt over services like health care and education plagues the developing world.
Just 22.3% of all the e-waste - any product that has a plug or battery - was properly collected and recycled in 2022.
The chair of the talks called for optimism despite divisions among plastic-producing nations and those urging restraints.
The number of people facing high levels of acute food insecurity has increased every year since 2019.
The group of organizations that reviewed the U.N. agency recommends several ways of strengthening its neutrality.
The wars in Europe and the Middle East, climate change and soaring national debts hung over the annual talks.
