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IPEN’s Role

IPEN’s Role: Banning Lead Paint

Since 2007, IPEN members from around the world have tested more than 5,000 paints from 59 countries, exposing ongoing sales of lead paint and advocating for global and national policy change to end lead poisoning threats from paint.

In 2009, following two years of conducting paint studies, IPEN and its members presented data on high levels of lead in paints from 11 countries, noting IPEN’s ongoing work with the Global Alliance to Eliminate Lead Paint (GAELP). IPEN members from six more countries shortly followed with more paint testing, uncovering risks from lead paint in their nations. Working with leading experts in the field, IPEN developed a standard protocol that all members would use for collecting and testing paints, making a global case for a lead paint ban. A summary of the work was included in IPEN’s Citizens’ Report on its 2009-2012 SAICM projects.

Citizens' Report

In 2013, international attention to lead paint arose once again, in response to a report by UNEP and IPEN on paint testing in nine countries that found the majority of paints tested had high levels of lead, above global safety standards. The report was launched during the first International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week (ILPPW), with IPEN releasing additional data from seven Asian countries where some progress on lead elimination had been made. In 2014, IPEN released a brief guide for eliminating lead paint.

At that time, Emmanuel (Manny) Calonzo was an IPEN Co-chair. A co-founder of the EcoWaste Coalition in the Philippines, Manny was successfully moving the paint market there toward lead-safe alternatives, and with IPEN, he spearheaded work to advance other national and global policies to ban lead paint. Under his leadership, IPEN expanded lead paint testing and advocacy globally, advancing regulations in several countries. In 2018, Manny was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for his work toward global elimination of lead paint.

IPEN continues to advocate globally and nationally for policies to end the production and use of lead paint. IPEN members call on their governments to support a Rotterdam Convention listing of lead chromates, the key pigments used in lead paint. Members also continue testing paint and advocating for national regulations to ban lead paint.

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Publikace

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Exporting Lead Poisoning: The Toxic Trade in Lead Chromates

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Health Risk Analysis of Lead Exposure in Selected Paint Industry Workers in Indonesia

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Rotterdam Convention Powerpoints

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Preparing Rotterdam Convention Notification to List Lead Chromates – A Reference and Guidance Paper

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Controlling Lead Chromate Pigments: the Case for a Rotterdam Convention Listing

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Global Lead Paint Elimination Report (2020)

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Lead in Paint: Country-based Studies

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Lead in Solvent-Based Paints for Home Use Global Report

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Global Lead Paint Report (2016)

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Eliminating Lead in Paint in Seven Asian Countries

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Worldwide Data on Lead in Paint 2015

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Eliminate Lead Paint: Protect Children’s Health, Africa Project

IPEN (Mezinárodní síť pro eliminaci polutantů)
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