Global plastic profiles: How are nations addressing safety concerns regarding ‘chemicals and polymers of concern’?

By focusing on chemicals and polymers of concern, negotiations for a future instrument to end plastic pollution aim to safeguard ecosystems and …

CSE-DTE at Ottawa: Where does India stand in the global plastic treaty talks? An explainer

New Delhi’s position is largely unchanged from INC-3 in Nairobi, although it has introduced some new arguments; it is also trying to …

Plastic’s toxic trail: The curious case of India’s petrochemical refineries

India’s legislations do not mandate it to create a baseline health assessment of the population before setting up factories with the …

Run-up to Ottawa: We, who suffer most due to plastics, must not be overlooked in talks, say indigenous peoples

Activists want negotiators to focus on a human rights-based approach as they deliberate on a plastics treaty; this includes centering knowledge, …

UNEA-6: Reuse should be central component of legally binding treaty on plastics, say speakers

Panelists at side event held on first day of meet hope an agreement is reached quickly

Champions of the Earth 2023: UN’s highest green honour celebrates innovative solutions to beat plastic pollution

The Champions of the Earth have been announced even as nations prepare to meet in Nairobi to discuss a globally binding plastic treaty  

Pandemic treaty draft negotiations to begin in February 2023

Ensuring equity and solidarity, promoting preparedness while respecting sovereignty will form the crux of this document

Plastic-free planet: No consensus on intersessional work on INC-3 last day

The negotiators have until the end of 2024 to strike a deal to control plastics, which produce an estimated 400 million tonnes of waste every year

DTE Coverage: INC-3 meeting in Nairobi

Meeting to formulate a global treaty against plastic pollution is a half step forward

Global plastic profiles: Here is how countries fare on primary polymers

CSE report groups nations on the basis of laws regarding regulation of what are building blocks of most plastic items, negotiations regarding …

Delay tactics: Outcomes of Paris plastic meet 2023 were far from expectations; here is why

Slow progress on treaty to end global plastic pollution as countries hold up negotiations with procedural objections

220 million tonnes of plastic waste will be created in 2024: EA Earth Action

Just 12 countries are responsible for 60% of the world’s mismanaged plastic waste, the top five being China, USA, India, Brazil, and …

The nuclear outrage

Missing the target

Ice-shield

POP, and we opt out

Something murky in India's ratification of two international conventions

The Grand Renaissance Dam: What’s at stake and what could break the deadlock

Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt have been negotiating for five years over the filling and annual operation of the dam. They have not been able to …

Simply Put: Earth Day 2024

Plastic-free planet: Paris meet ends after severe delays, with proposal for zero draft text

Member states have urged the INC secretariat to prepare a zero draft which will be up for negotiations at INC-3 in Nairobi, Kenya

Small is beautiful

Tobacco control

Action plan

China inching towards POPs treaty ratification

Fishing quotas to be curtailed

Sinking "straddling" fish stocks find chances of survival as an international treaty is approved to check overfishing

How the Grand Renaissance Dam might spark basin-wide water cooperation

There is no doubt that the dam has become a source of serious tension among Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan

Plastic’s toxic trail: What are these polymers and what do they contain?

Between 2021 and 2024, the number of chemicals reported to be used by the plastic industry has gone up from around 10,000 to 16,000