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The world’s nations will wrap up negotiating a treaty this weekend to address the global crisis of plastic pollution

The UN’s new plastics treaty is about to be finalised – marking a crucial opportunity to form an international agreement to tackle the plastic pollution crisis. Plastic waste is ubiquitous – damaging human health and livelihoods, as well as ecosystems in water and on land; yet plastic production is at…

Plastic pollution is no longer just an environmental issue – it is a health crisis and a significant driver of the climate crisis

Island nations say recycling insufficient to solve problem when 400 million tonnes of plastic waste is produced yearly.

Energy Secretary Ed Miliband called the package a ‘critical 11th-hour deal at the 11th hour for the climate’.

Scheme has collected a fraction of the waste it set out to handle and is struggling with broken machinery and poor finances

Five oil and chemical companies which promised to divert plastic from environment accused of producing 132m tonnes of it

Ukrainian president hails mines as important part of arsenal in statement; aid groups condemn ‘unethical’ decision, saying mines risk harming civilians

Greenpeace says targeting of substations connected to three working nuclear plants risks nuclear catastrophe in Europe

Around 1,000 protesters gathered in central London on Saturday to demand an end to fossil fuels and ‘UK complicity in the Gaza genocide’.

Africa continues to grapple with plastic pollution, a waste crisis, and limited investment, activists report, as discussions unfold at the UN climate meetings in Azerbaijan. To shed light on these overlapping challenges, RFI interviewed campaigners and negotiators from across the continent.