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

Lead in paint

Chemicals in products

Nanotechnology

Highly Hazardous Pesticides

Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals

Perfluorinated Chemicals

Pharmaceutical pollutants

Hazardous chemicals in electronics

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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Daniela Murcia Rojas

By formulating the circularity roadmap for the electronics sector in the Latin American and Caribbean region, it will be possible to establish a current status of this in the region.As a result, the strengths and weaknesses of the selected countries can be defined, including current regulations and the management of chemicals of concern, in order to provide a series of recommendations that propose strategies, synergies and others, around the opportunity to develop circularity in the different phases of the value chain.

Alejandra Fernandez

Specialist consultant in handling chemical products and hazardous waste, with experience in projects related to international convention (Stockholm Convention, Minamata Convention), as well as cleaner production programs and safe handling of chemical products and waste in private companies. She worked for the non-profit organization Health Care without Harm as project manager in Latin America, organizing workshops and projects to eliminate mercury, hazardous waste, sustainble procurement, and environmental management in hospitals and other health facilities in Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Colombia, Panama and Guatemala.

Florisvindo Furtado

By contributing to the creation and enforcement of national and international legal framework on chemicals and hazardous wastes as well as the related guidelines for the main industry stakeholders and operators, dealing with chemicals or producing

Meda Gurudutt Prasad

Safe and Effective use of Pesticides a training to the Tribal Farmers in Andhra Pradesh and Promotion of a sustainable, climate resilient agriculture in tribal communities of Andhra Pradesh.

Alka Dubey

I have been working on chemicals such as BPA, triclosan, Phthalates, POPs. We are doing primary and secondary research work and through our findings we are approaching government to bring the policy change. We are also involved in capacity building of stakeholders to educate them on the issue and take appropriate action.

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