The Stockholm Convention contaminated sites guidelines should advance steps toward a healthier planet by identifying POPs contaminated sites, minimizing exposure risks, and using non-combustion and other alternative technologies for safer POP waste disposal and site clean-up.
Project TENDR is an alliance of more than 50 leading scientists, health professionals, and advocates working to protect children from toxic chemicals and pollutants that harm brain development, prioritizing ending the disproportionate exposures to these chemicals and pollutants and greater impacts experienced by children from families with low incomes and families of color.
Click below to read the letter from Project TENDR and their allies (including IPEN) calling on the Stockholm Convention to list chlorpyrifos for global elimination.
The POPs Review Committee has recommended three new chemicals be listed for global elimination at the 2025 Stockholm Convention COP: chlorpyrifos, medium-chain chlorinated paraffins (MCCPs), and long-chain perfluorocarboxylic acids (LC-PFCAs). IPEN's guides briefly describe why each of these hazardous chemicals should be globally banned, without exemptions.
This guide describes chlorpyrifos and the case for listing this toxic pesticide for global elimination.
The POPs Review Committee has recommended three new chemicals be listed for global elimination at the 2025 Stockholm Convention COP: chlorpyrifos, medium-chain chlorinated paraffins (MCCPs), and long-chain perfluorocarboxylic acids (LC-PFCAs). IPEN's guides briefly describe why each of these hazardous chemicals should be globally banned, without exemptions.
This guide describes long-chain perfluorocarboxylic acids and the case for listing these chemicals for global elimination.
From April 28 to May 9, IPEN members will participate in the Meetings of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions taking place in Geneva, Switzerland. Check this page for updates throughout the meetings.
By Tripti Arora, Coordinator, IPEN South Asia Hub, IPEN Gender Coordinator
As plastic pollution spirals into a full-scale environmental and health crisis, the world is witnessing mounting calls for urgent, comprehensive action. A Global Plastics Treaty is now on the agenda, aiming to curb the toxic toll of plastics across ecosystems and communities. Yet, to be truly effective, this treaty needs to acknowledge a crucial but often overlooked dimension: gender.
Incineration is an outdated, unsustainable method for waste disposal, as burning waste, especially plastics, produces dangerous air emissions and high amounts of toxic ash
Tuesday, 03 September 2024
A comprehensive new report “Waste incineration and the Environment” released today by Arnika, the Centre for Environment Justice and Development (CEJAD) in Kenya, Centre de Recherche et d‘Education pour le Développement (CREPD) in Cameroon, Toxics Free Australia (TFA), and IPEN finds that burning waste, especially plastics, produces unsustainable and unmanageable hazardous air emissions and large
