IPEN members from around the world will participate in the seventh session of the U.N. Environment Assembly (UNEA-7) in Nairobi, Kenya from 8 to 12 December, 2025. The theme of the session is "Advancing sustainable solutions for a resilient planet.”
In previous UNEA meetings IPEN has advocated for strong global protections from toxic chemicals, including successfully working for adoption of the resolution for a Plastics Treaty at UNEA-5.
UNEA is the world’s top decision-making body on the environment, aiming to help restore harmony between humanity and nature and improve the lives of the world’s most vulnerable people.
Read the IPEN briefing, "Defending the Integrity of the Plastics Treaty Negotiations here.
From 2013 to 2015, IPEN, Arnika, and Green Beagle worked to expose chemical safety concerns in China, aiming to strengthen the capacity of civil society organizations and communities impacted by pollution and to strengthen chemical safety policies in China.The reports below document some of the case studies from that work.
Chicken eggs are sensitive indicators of chemical contamination in soils and dust and because they are widely consumed, they are a common exposure pathway from environmental pollution to humans. IPEN and its Participating Organizations have conducted dozens of scientific egg sampling projects to expose threats from persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and other toxic chemicals.
