IPEN Updates & Action Archive:

   IPEN Congratulates and Celebrates IPENers
Olga Speranskaya and Yuyun Ismawati who have been awarded the coveted 2009 Goldman Environmental Prize, for grassroots environmental activism. and
Time Magazine's Heroes of the Environment 2009

Posted January 2010

  IPEN COP4 Outcomes:
See the IPEN COP4 Press Releases
and Learn about IPEN's Keep the Promise Campaign and activities to uphold the Stockholm Conventions and the responsibilities of the Parties.

Posted January 2010

  SAICM / ICCM2 Outcomes:
IPEN had hoped the international community at ICCM2 would have take more urgent actions to address the critical toxic chemical problems current and future generations are faced with.
See IPEN ICCM2, Press Releases and Nanotechnology, Press Releases

Posted May 2009

  Global Phase-out of Lead in Paints
The international community at ICCM2 endorsed a proposal from an IPEN participating organization from India, Toxics Link, to form a partnership to promote the global phase-out of lead in paints. To our knowledge, this is the first time an NGO proposal has been adopted for global action by governments and all stakeholders in a UN process on chemicals. Furthermore, the proposal was endorsed by the G8 in April and by the industry itself, via the International Paint and Printing Ink Council in May 2009.

Posted May 2009

  Endosulfan requires global action   UN International Expert Committee: Endosulfan requires global action Pesticide moves closer to a global ban.
Chinese Press Release - .pdf 76KB
Portuguese Press Release - .pdf 48KB
English Press Release - .pdf 148KB

Posted December 2009

  Nanotechnology  as a .pdf 582KB.
A brief background information report from the African workshop on nanotechnology and nanomaterials.
Brief background information on nanotechnology and nanomaterials from Kingston - March 7thh - 2010.
  English as a .pdf 59KB.
  Spanish  as a .pdf 59KB.

Posted March 2009

  Version: July 2010