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to the new Knowledge Platform of the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM)

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

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Our Communities of Practice are spaces of exchange on the sound management of chemicals and waste among representatives from academia, governments, industry, intergovernmental organizations, non-governmental organizations, consumers, and citizens

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Check our calendar of events where discussions and decisions are taken to shape the future of chemicals and their impact in our environment and health

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Keep updated on news on chemicals of concern as well as challenges and achievements to progress towards the SDGs

Chemicals in products

Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals

Hazardous chemicals in electronics

Highly Hazardous Pesticides

Lead in paint

Nanotechnology

Perfluorinated Chemicals

Pharmaceutical pollutants

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

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Marisa Jacott

We work in communities affected by chemical and industrial pollution in Mexico for 20 years;We develop materials of chemical pollution and do workshops in communities, schools, factories;We belong to the International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN);We are trying to push a national legislation in chemicals in Mexico pushing the Precautionary Principle, Substitution, Green Chemistry among others like the defense of Economic, Social, Cultural, and Environmental Rights DESCA;We are part of national committee to enforce Stockholm and Basel Conventions and SAICM and Beyond 2020 in Mexico;We do research on toxic chemicals, hazardous waste, right to know, extended producer responsibility, social rights.

Rebecca Mlelwa

Rebecca is an Environmental and Occupational Health Specialist focusing on children’s environmental health, public health, management of hazardous chemicals in products, exposure assessment, chemical risk assessment and management, risk communicat

Thuli

Ensuring waste management policies are in place through conducting waste management audits and monitoring adherence to policies. Ensuring departments have clear understand of their waste streams from each activity.

Muhammad Farooq

It is submitted that in order to highlight the issue of electronic waste (e-waste), its hazardous effects on health & environment as well as loss of precious resources and awareness for the general public about this growing challenge in the field

Eva Kumar

I investigate persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in environmental matrices and biota and monitor human exposure to POPs. The monitoring data provide us with valuable knowledge that is necessary for taking measures to reduce levels of these chemicals in environment.

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