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Plastics Treaty INC-5

International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week 2024

New Report: Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals: Threats to Human Health

Chemical Recycling: A Dangerous Deception

See StopPoisonPlastic.org - our website on toxic plastics

Video: Plastics Poisoning Our Health

New Report: The Arctic’s Plastic Crisis

IPEN’s Work to Eliminate Lead Poisoning Highlighted at G7 Workshop

Friday, 28 October 2022

See the joint statement to the G7 calling for a "Six-point plan for G7 Action on Global Lead Poisoning"

In May 2022, the G7 Climate, Energy and Environment Ministers recognized lead pollution as a burden on human health and the environment globally and expressed their strong commitment to reduce lead in the environment and to reduce the disproportionate lead exposure in vulnerable communities.

Now IPEN experts will present our work to document and eliminate lead threats and vision for solutions to lead poisoning at a G7 workshop in Berlin from 9-10 November 2022. IPEN Science Advisor Dr. Sara Brosché will speak on a plenary session on “Approaches to Address Lead,” and IPEN’s Lead Paint Elimination Campaigner from the Philippines Jeiel Guarino will speak on a breakout panel on lead in paint, to examine the existing challenge of lead paint around the world and discuss how G7 (and G20) can contribute to addressing this situation.

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".