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.
This opinion piece by Lee Bell, IPEN Technical and Policy Advisor, appears as part of a policy debate in the May/June 2025 issue of the Environmental Law Institute's Environmental Forum.
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.
