IPEN has long advocated for global and national policies to prevent threats to health and the environment from PFAS "forever chemicals." See some of IPEN's global reports and policy briefs, below.
See IPEN members' activities in support of the annual International Lead Poisoning Prevention Weekk of Action. IPEN members have been active since the first Week of Action in 2013 and often conduct the majority of the global events to highlight the need for global and national bans on lead paint during the week.
The widely used current limit value for POPs in waste (Low POPs Content Levels) leaves vast amounts of industrial wastes containing persistent organic pollutats (POPs) like dioxins out of control. With this weak limit level, there is no requirement to dtreat these wastes as hazardous POPs waste - these toxic wastes can even be used in construction material. This is how dioxins in wastes can spread and contaminate the environment and the food chain and harm human health.
IPEN members from around the world will participate in the seventh session of the U.N. Environment Assembly (UNEA-7) in Nairobi, Kenya from 8 to 12 December, 2025. The theme of the session is "Advancing sustainable solutions for a resilient planet.”
In previous UNEA meetings IPEN has advocated for strong global protections from toxic chemicals, including successfully working for adoption of the resolution for a Plastics Treaty at UNEA-5.
UNEA is the world’s top decision-making body on the environment, aiming to help restore harmony between humanity and nature and improve the lives of the world’s most vulnerable people.
Read the IPEN briefing, "Defending the Integrity of the Plastics Treaty Negotiations here.
From 2013 to 2015, IPEN, Arnika, and Green Beagle worked to expose chemical safety concerns in China, aiming to strengthen the capacity of civil society organizations and communities impacted by pollution and to strengthen chemical safety policies in China.The reports below document some of the case studies from that work.
