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New Report: The Arctic’s Plastic Crisis

Plastics Treaty INC-4

New Report: Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals: Threats to Human Health

6th United Nations Environmental Assembly (UNEA-6)

Chemical Recycling: A Dangerous Deception

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Video: Plastics Poisoning Our Health

ILPPWA

Global Health Groups Say: “Our Kids Can’t Wait, End Lead Paint Now!”

50 IPEN Member Groups from 40 Countries Join International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week’s Call to “Say No to Lead Poisoning”

Thursday, 20 October 2022

IPEN and 50 of its member groups from 40 countries will join the Global Alliance to Eliminate Lead Paint, a joint program of WHO and UNEP, for International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week (ILPPW) this October 23-29, emphasizing the urgent need to protect children’s health through global action to eliminate the use of lead paint. IPEN is a founding member of the Alliance and a member of its Advisory Board.

International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week 2022

More than 50 participating organizations of the International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN) from over 40 countries are taking part in the International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week (ILPPW) on October 23-29, 2022.

Stockholm Convention

U.N. Expert Committee Recommends Global Elimination of Two Toxic Plastic Additives

Friday, 30 September 2022

(Rome, Italy) A U.N. expert scientific review committee has evaluated two toxic, chemical additives found in many common plastics and has concluded the evidence of the substances harm to health and the environment qualify them for global elimination, recommending that the chemicals be listed under the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs).

Indiana Citizens’ Group Exposes False Promises of Proposed Plastic Waste to Fuel Plant

Thursday, 29 September 2022

A new report compiled by Valerie Denney, a long-time communications adviser to IPEN, warns that a plastic waste-burning “bioenergy” facility proposed for the city of Gary, Indiana (about 30 miles south of Chicago on the shore of Lake Michigan) will cause major health and environmental problems.

Mercury

UN Human Rights Expert Calls for an End to the Trade in Mercury and its Use in Small-Scale Gold Mining

UN Special Rapporteur urges closing a loophole in Minamata Convention on Mercury to stop human rights abuses linked to mercury in gold mining

Tuesday, 13 September 2022

Geneva, Switzerland - As many as 15 million men, women and children around the world suffer significant and potentially life-threatening human rights abuses from mercury used in small-scale gold mining, according to a groundbreaking report presented today by Marcos A. Orellana, the UN Special Rapporteur on Toxics and Human Rights.

Plastic

Plastic Waste

IPEN Group Joins AMCEN Meeting in Senegal

Monday, 12 September 2022 - 2:09pm

A delegation of IPEN members are joining the resumed eighteenth session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) in Dakar, Senegal this week, under the theme: “Ensuring the well-being of populations and ensuring environmental sustainability in Africa".

Fourth Meeting of the Intersessional Process for SAICM

The Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM) was signed in 2006 at the first session of the International Conference on Chemicals Management (ICCM). SAICM is a unique global strategy to create a world where chemicals are no longer produced or used in ways that harm human health and the environment.

IPEN is actively engaged in the August 2022 in-person SAICM IP4 (4^th Intersessional Process) meeting in Bucharest, Romania. We have engaged with the SAICM process since the first Preparatory meeting in 2003 and continue to support the contributions of our member organizations around the world to the SAICM Process today.