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Manuals and toolkits

Healthy Home Guide: Building Supplies

May 2023
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The Healthy Home Guides provide advice and guidance on hazardous chemicals to avoid in different types of building materials. The guides include key product features to look out for and recommended alternatives that are healthier and more sustainable.

Emerging Policy Issues: Chemicals in products
Manuals and toolkits

Prescription for Healthier Building Materials: A Design and Implementation Protocol

May 2023
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This handbook is aimed at helping the American architecture and construction sectors select healthier and more sustainable  materials for their projects. The handbook outlines guidelines for evaluating and selecting materials based on factors such as lifecycle assessment, material transparency, and health and wellness impacts. It also suggests useful tools and provides examples from case studies.

Emerging Policy Issues: Chemicals in products
Community of practice summary of discussions

The role and importance of national and regional Highly Hazardous Pesticides strategies

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May 2022
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The SAICM Secretariat, in partnership with the University of Cape Town, established a community of practice on Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs) to foster discussions, exchange of best practices, and recommendations to address HHPs amongst relevant stakeholders. This is a summary of the discussion on The role and importance of national and regional Highly Hazardous Pesticides strategies, which took place on 18 May 2022.Presenters: Fredrick Otieno (CEJAD), Mark Davis (FAO)The need for action on highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs) has received attention
Emerging Policy Issues: Highly Hazardous Pesticides
Topics: Knowledge Management
Community of practice summary of discussions

Traceability tools across supply chains

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SAICM
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May 2022
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The SAICM Secretariat, in partnership with the University of Cape Town, established a community of practice on Chemicals in Products to bring representatives from different sectors together and to create a learning network around issues related to addressing Chemicals in Products (CiP). This is a summary of the discussion on Traceability tools across supply chains, which took place on 12 May 2022.Presenters: Virginia Cram-Martos (UNECE), Lorenzo Zullo (Chemchain), Deborah Taylor (UNECE)With increasing pressure for environmental and social due diligence in
Emerging Policy Issues: Chemicals in products
Topics: Knowledge Management
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Community of practice summary of discussions

Transitioning to paints without added lead: guidance and experience in reformulation

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SAICM
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May 2022
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The Secretariat of the Strategic Approach to Chemicals Management (SAICM) and the University of Cape Town (UCT) have established a Community of Practice (CoP) on Lead in Paint to bring representatives from different sectors together and to create a learning network around issues related to the elimination of Lead Paint. This is a summary of the discussion on Transitioning to paints without added lead: guidance and experience in reformulation, which took place on 25 May 2022.Presenters: Dr Branko Dunjic (NCPC
Emerging Policy Issues: Lead in paint
Topics: Knowledge Management
EnglishFrench
Community of practice summary of discussions

Capacity building – tools that are used

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SAICM
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July 2022
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The Secretariat of the Strategic Approach to Chemicals Management (SAICM) and the University of Cape Town (UCT) have launched a Community of Practice (CoP) on Chemicals and SDGs to bring representatives from different sectors together and to create a learning network around issues related to addressing Chemicals and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This is a summary of the discussion on Capacity building – tools that are used, which took place on 6 July 2022.Presenters: Olivier Wootton (UNITAR), Dr. Olga
Topics: Sustainable Development Goals Knowledge Management
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