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Treaty on plastic pollution

The U.N. International Negotiating Committee holds a plenary session in Geneva on Aug. 15, 2025, to create the world's first legally binding treaty to address plastic pollution.

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Treaty on plastic pollution

Chair of the U.N. International Negotiating Committee, Luis Vayas Valdivieso, speaks during a plenary session in Geneva on Aug. 15, 2025. The committee worked on creating the world's first legally binding treaty to address plastic pollution.

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Treaty on plastic pollution

Participants react after chair of the U.N. International Negotiating Committee, Luis Vayas Valdivieso, said at the outset of its plenary session in Geneva on Aug. 14, 2025, that talks to create the world's first legally binding treaty to address plastic pollution will be adjourned to the following day.

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Debate session on the first part of the 2025 finance bill at the National Assembly - Paris

French MP and President of the Finance Committee Eric Coquerel speaks during a debate session on the first part of the 2025 finance bill at the National Assembly, in Paris on October 23, 2024. Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Debate session on the first part of the 2025 finance bill at the National Assembly - Paris

French MP and President of the Finance Committee Eric Coquerel speaks during a debate session on the first part of the 2025 finance bill at the National Assembly, in Paris on October 23, 2024. Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Debate session on the first part of the 2025 finance bill at the National Assembly - Paris

French MP and President of the Finance Committee Eric Coquerel speaks during a debate session on the first part of the 2025 finance bill at the National Assembly, in Paris on October 23, 2024. Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Debate session on the first part of the 2025 finance bill at the National Assembly - Paris

French MP and President of the Finance Committee Eric Coquerel speaks during a debate session on the first part of the 2025 finance bill at the National Assembly, in Paris on October 23, 2024. Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Debate session on the first part of the 2025 finance bill at the National Assembly - Paris

French MP and President of the Finance Committee Eric Coquerel speaks during a debate session on the first part of the 2025 finance bill at the National Assembly, in Paris on October 23, 2024. Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Debate session on the first part of the 2025 finance bill at the National Assembly - Paris

French MP and President of the Finance Committee Eric Coquerel speaks during a debate session on the first part of the 2025 finance bill at the National Assembly, in Paris on October 23, 2024. Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

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2025 Finance Bill Debate - Paris

French MP and President of the Finance Committee Eric Coquerel speaks during a debate session on the first part of the 2025 finance bill at the National Assembly, in Paris on October 21, 2024. Photo by Alexis Jumeau/ABACAPRESS.COM

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2025 Finance Bill Debate - Paris

French MP and Rapporteur General of the Budget Charles de Courson, French MP and President of the Finance Committee Eric Coquerel, French Minister for the Economy, Finance and Industry Antoine Armand and French Minister for Budget and Public Accounts Laurent Saint-Martin during a debate session on the first part of the 2025 finance bill at the National Assembly, in Paris on October 21, 2024. Photo by Alexis Jumeau/ABACAPRESS.COM

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2025 Finance Bill Debate - Paris

French MP and President of the Finance Committee Eric Coquerel during a debate session on the first part of the 2025 finance bill at the National Assembly, in Paris on October 21, 2024. Photo by Alexis Jumeau/ABACAPRESS.COM

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2025 Finance Bill Debate - Paris

French MP and President of the Finance Committee Eric Coquerel speaks during a debate session on the first part of the 2025 finance bill at the National Assembly, in Paris on October 21, 2024. Photo by Alexis Jumeau/ABACAPRESS.COM

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2025 Finance Bill Debate - Paris

French MP and President of the Finance Committee Eric Coquerel speaks during a debate session on the first part of the 2025 finance bill at the National Assembly, in Paris on October 21, 2024. Photo by Alexis Jumeau/ABACAPRESS.COM

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2025 Finance Bill Debate - Paris

French MP and President of the Finance Committee Eric Coquerel speaks during a debate session on the first part of the 2025 finance bill at the National Assembly, in Paris on October 21, 2024. Photo by Alexis Jumeau/ABACAPRESS.COM

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2025 Finance Bill Debate - Paris

French MP and Rapporteur General of the Budget Charles de Courson, French MP and President of the Finance Committee Eric Coquerel during a debate session on the first part of the 2025 finance bill at the National Assembly, in Paris on October 21, 2024. Photo by Alexis Jumeau/ABACAPRESS.COM

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2025 Finance Bill Debate - Paris

French MP and Rapporteur General of the Budget Charles de Courson, French MP and President of the Finance Committee Eric Coquerel during a debate session on the first part of the 2025 finance bill at the National Assembly, in Paris on October 21, 2024. Photo by Alexis Jumeau/ABACAPRESS.COM

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2025 Finance Bill Debate - Paris

French MP and Rapporteur General of the Budget Charles de Courson, French MP and President of the Finance Committee Eric Coquerel, French Minister for the Economy, Finance and Industry Antoine Armand and French Minister for Budget and Public Accounts Laurent Saint-Martin during a debate session on the first part of the 2025 finance bill at the National Assembly, in Paris on October 21, 2024. Photo by Alexis Jumeau/ABACAPRESS.COM

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2025 Finance Bill Debate - Paris

French MP and Rapporteur General of the Budget Charles de Courson, French MP and President of the Finance Committee Eric Coquerel, French Minister for the Economy, Finance and Industry Antoine Armand and French Minister for Budget and Public Accounts Laurent Saint-Martin and French Deputy Minister for the Relations with the Parliament Nathalie Delattre during a debate session on the first part of the 2025 finance bill at the National Assembly, in Paris on October 21, 2024. Photo by Alexis Jumeau/ABACAPRESS.COM

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2025 Finance Bill Debate - Paris

French MP and President of the Finance Committee Eric Coquerel, French Minister for the Economy, Finance and Industry Antoine Armand and French Minister for Budget and Public Accounts Laurent Saint-Martin during a debate session on the first part of the 2025 finance bill at the National Assembly, in Paris on October 21, 2024. Photo by Alexis Jumeau/ABACAPRESS.COM

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2025 Finance Bill Debate - Paris

French MP and Rapporteur General of the Budget Charles de Courson, French MP and President of the Finance Committee Eric Coquerel during a debate session on the first part of the 2025 finance bill at the National Assembly, in Paris on October 21, 2024. Photo by Alexis Jumeau/ABACAPRESS.COM

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2025 Finance Bill Debate - Paris

French MP and President of the Finance Committee Eric Coquerel, French Minister for the Economy, Finance and Industry Antoine Armand and French Minister for Budget and Public Accounts Laurent Saint-Martin during a debate session on the first part of the 2025 finance bill at the National Assembly, in Paris on October 21, 2024. Photo by Alexis Jumeau/ABACAPRESS.COM

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2025 Finance Bill Debate - Paris

French MP and President of the Finance Committee Eric Coquerel, French Minister for the Economy, Finance and Industry Antoine Armand during a debate session on the first part of the 2025 finance bill at the National Assembly, in Paris on October 21, 2024. Photo by Alexis Jumeau/ABACAPRESS.COM

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2025 Finance Bill Debate - Paris

French MP and President of the Finance Committee Eric Coquerel, French Minister for the Economy, Finance and Industry Antoine Armand and French Minister for Budget and Public Accounts Laurent Saint-Martin during a debate session on the first part of the 2025 finance bill at the National Assembly, in Paris on October 21, 2024. Photo by Alexis Jumeau/ABACAPRESS.COM

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2025 Finance Bill Debate - Paris

French MP and President of the Finance Committee Eric Coquerel, French Minister for the Economy, Finance and Industry Antoine Armand during a debate session on the first part of the 2025 finance bill at the National Assembly, in Paris on October 21, 2024. Photo by Alexis Jumeau/ABACAPRESS.COM

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2025 Finance Bill Debate - Paris

French MP and President of the Finance Committee Eric Coquerel speaks with the France Insoumise group (LFI) in the background during a debate session on the first part of the 2025 finance bill at the National Assembly, in Paris on October 21, 2024. Photo by Alexis Jumeau/ABACAPRESS.COM

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2025 Finance Bill Debate - Paris

French MP and President of the Finance Committee Eric Coquerel speaks with the France Insoumise group (LFI) in the background during a debate session on the first part of the 2025 finance bill at the National Assembly, in Paris on October 21, 2024. Photo by Alexis Jumeau/ABACAPRESS.COM

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2025 Finance Bill Debate - Paris

French MP and President of the Finance Committee Eric Coquerel speaks during a debate session on the first part of the 2025 finance bill at the National Assembly, in Paris on October 21, 2024. Photo by Alexis Jumeau/ABACAPRESS.COM

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2025 Finance Bill Debate - Paris

French MP and President of the Finance Committee Eric Coquerel speaks during a debate session on the first part of the 2025 finance bill at the National Assembly, in Paris on October 21, 2024. Photo by Alexis Jumeau/ABACAPRESS.COM

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2025 Finance Bill Debate - Paris

French MP and President of the Finance Committee Eric Coquerel speaks during a debate session on the first part of the 2025 finance bill at the National Assembly, in Paris on October 21, 2024. Photo by Alexis Jumeau/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Delayed Retirement Age Review

HANGZHOU, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 11, 2024 - A deliveryman delivers food to citizens on a street in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, Sept 11, 2024. On September 11, 2024, the 11th session of the 14th National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee held its first plenary meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on the morning of September 10. The meeting deliberated the motion of The State Council on submitting a draft decision on implementing a gradual extension of the statutory retirement age for deliberation.

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Delayed Retirement Age Review

HANGZHOU, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 11, 2024 - A deliveryman delivers food to citizens on a street in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, Sept 11, 2024. On September 11, 2024, the 11th session of the 14th National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee held its first plenary meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on the morning of September 10. The meeting deliberated the motion of The State Council on submitting a draft decision on implementing a gradual extension of the statutory retirement age for deliberation.

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Delayed Retirement Age Review

HANGZHOU, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 11, 2024 - A deliveryman delivers food to citizens on a street in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, Sept 11, 2024. On September 11, 2024, the 11th session of the 14th National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee held its first plenary meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on the morning of September 10. The meeting deliberated the motion of The State Council on submitting a draft decision on implementing a gradual extension of the statutory retirement age for deliberation.

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Delayed Retirement Age Review

HANGZHOU, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 11, 2024 - An elderly man walks out of a private medical clinic in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, Sept 11, 2024. On September 11, 2024, the 11th session of the 14th National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee held its first plenary meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on the morning of September 10. The meeting deliberated the motion of The State Council on submitting a draft decision on implementing a gradual extension of the statutory retirement age for deliberation.

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Delayed Retirement Age Review

HANGZHOU, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 11, 2024 - A garden staff carries cut branches on a street in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, Sept 11, 2024. On September 11, 2024, the 11th session of the 14th National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee held its first plenary meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on the morning of September 10. The meeting deliberated the motion of The State Council on submitting a draft decision on implementing a gradual extension of the statutory retirement age for deliberation.

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Delayed Retirement Age Review

HANGZHOU, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 11, 2024 - A garden staff carries cut branches on a street in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, Sept 11, 2024. On September 11, 2024, the 11th session of the 14th National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee held its first plenary meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on the morning of September 10. The meeting deliberated the motion of The State Council on submitting a draft decision on implementing a gradual extension of the statutory retirement age for deliberation.

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Delayed Retirement Age Review

HANGZHOU, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 11, 2024 - An elderly man pushes his grandson into a community in Hangzhou city, Zhejiang province, China, Sept 11, 2024. On September 11, 2024, the 11th session of the 14th National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee held its first plenary meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on the morning of September 10. The meeting deliberated the motion of The State Council on submitting a draft decision on implementing a gradual extension of the statutory retirement age for deliberation.

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Delayed Retirement Age Review

HANGZHOU, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 11, 2024 - Elderly people walk on a street with their families in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, Sept 11, 2024. On September 11, 2024, the 11th session of the 14th National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee held its first plenary meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on the morning of September 10. The meeting deliberated the motion of The State Council on submitting a draft decision on implementing a gradual extension of the statutory retirement age for deliberation.

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Paris 2024 - First Day Of The 142nd IOC Session

International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Zhang Hong (R) reacts on the first day of the 142nd IOC Session ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France, on July 23, 2024. Photo by Xinhua/Sun Fei/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Paris 2024 - First Day Of The 142nd IOC Session

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach (C) reacts on the first day of the 142nd IOC Session ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France, on July 23, 2024. Photo by Xinhua/Sun Fei/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Paris 2024 - First Day Of The 142nd IOC Session

Li Lingwei (R), vice president of the Chinese Olympic Committee and International Olympic Committee (IOC) member, reacts on the first day of the 142nd IOC Session ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France, on July 23, 2024. Photo by Xinhua/Sun Fei/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Paris 2024 - First Day Of The 142nd IOC Session

Yu Zaiqing (R), vice president of the Chinese Olympic Committee and International Olympic Committee (IOC) member, reacts on the first day of the 142nd IOC Session ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France, on July 23, 2024. Photo by Xinhua/Sun Fei/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Paris 2024 - First Day Of The 142nd IOC Session

Li Lingwei, vice president of the Chinese Olympic Committee and International Olympic Committee (IOC) member, reacts on the first day of the 142nd IOC Session ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France, on July 23, 2024. Photo by Xinhua/Sun Fei/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Paris 2024 - First Day Of The 142nd IOC Session

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach (1st L) reacts on the first day of the 142nd IOC Session ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France, on July 23, 2024. Photo by Xinhua/Sun Fei/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Paris 2024 - First Day Of The 142nd IOC Session

Yu Zaiqing, vice president of the Chinese Olympic Committee and International Olympic Committee (IOC) member, reacts on the first day of the 142nd IOC Session ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France, on July 23, 2024. Photo by Xinhua/Sun Fei/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Paris 2024 - First Day Of The 142nd IOC Session

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach delivers a speech on the first day of the 142nd IOC Session ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France, on July 23, 2024. Photo by Xinhua/Sun Fei/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Paris 2024 - First Day Of The 142nd IOC Session

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach delivers a speech on the first day of the 142nd IOC Session ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France, on July 23, 2024. Photo by Xinhua/Sun Fei/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Paris 2024 - First Day Of The 142nd IOC Session

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach delivers a speech on the first day of the 142nd IOC Session ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France, on July 23, 2024. Photo by Xinhua/Sun Fei/ABACAPRESS.COM

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(PARIS2024)FRANCE-PARIS-IOC SESSION-DAY 1

(240723) -- PARIS, July 23, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach (C) reacts on the first day of the 142nd IOC Session ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France, on July 23, 2024. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Sun Fei)

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(PARIS2024)FRANCE-PARIS-IOC SESSION-DAY 1

(240723) -- PARIS, July 23, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach delivers a speech on the first day of the 142nd IOC Session ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France, on July 23, 2024. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Sun Fei)