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Here you can access useful resources, read articles, find out about latest events, meet people and join our communities of practice on the SAICM emerging chemical policy issues

Emerging Policy Issues

Chemicals in products
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Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals
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Hazardous chemicals in electronics
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Highly Hazardous Pesticides
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Lead in paint
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Nanotechnology
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Perfluorinated Chemicals
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Pharmaceutical pollutants
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Highlights

Policy brief

A review of PFAS as a Chemical Class in the Textiles Sector

For over a decade, under both SAICM and the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), the class of chemicals known as PFAS is gaining increasing international attention.

Policy Document

Global elimination of lead paint: why and how countries should take action

Lead has toxic effects on almost all body systems and is especially harmful for children and pregnant women. Lead paint is an avoidable source of exposure to lead.

Report

Women, Chemicals and the SDGs

Gender Review Mapping with a Focus on Women and Chemicals: Impact of Emerging Policy Issues and the Relevance for the Sustainable Development Goals

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People working for a healthier environment

Read more about Joan Sebastian Vargas Rativa
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Joan Sebastian Vargas Rativa

Estrategias dinámicas y pluriculturales sobre el recurso humano que este interactuando en el ambiente, para brindar acciones más amenas a la manipulación de los insumos provenientes de la naturaleza o fabricados por el ser humano, a fin de salvagu

Read more about Olga Speranskaya
Olga Speranskaya
I have a PhD in Physics and more than 30 years of experience in research and project management in academic and not-for-profit environment, and a strong experience in consulting on environmental health issues. I work with diverse group of stakeholders and individuals on strategic planning and organizational design to strengthen their participation in decision making on chemical safety and environmental health. I organized and manage efficiently information, data, and contract compliance for more than 70 projects in developing countries and countries with economies in transition working on a variety of issues related to sound chemicals and waste management and associated
Read more about Sathish Kokkula
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Sathish Kokkula
Our NGO, Srivaranam Organization for the Environmental Education (SOEE), was accredited by the Conference of the States Parties (CSP) of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) for the work and papers/statement submitted on the topics "Dual-use Chemica
Read more about Kenneth Davis
Kenneth Davis
I am a policy and technical expert specializing in the role of science in shaping multilateral cooperation on the environment. Trained as a geologist, I began my career working on transboundary environmental issues as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Ukraine. After gaining experience on contaminated site remediation as a private consultant, I joined the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of International Affairs, where I served on the U.S. delegation negotiating the Minamata Convention on Mercury. In 2014, I joined the UNEP Chemicals and Waste Branch. My work includes managing projects on reducing mercury use in artisanal mining and other
Read more about Ivy Gertrude Mutsa Saunyama
Ivy Gertrude Mutsa Saunyama
Supporting Governments through various field projects and programmes to implement FAO/WHO international code of conduct on pesticide management, related guidelines and tools such as the Registration Toolkit to reduce pesticide risks to human health and the environment. Also involved in FAO's normative work to develop instruments that seek to reduce agrochemical risk to environmental health. Specific focus is on strengthening life cycle management of pesticides, phasing out HHPs and promoting safer alternatives. Also involved in capacity building, especially for strengthening pesticide regulators capacities for pesticide risk reduction; as well as extension and farmers capacity especially to promote adoption of agroecosystem
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