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Sustainable Development Goals

IPEN and the SDGs

Toxics-Free SDGs Campaign Activities: 

IPEN Participating Organizations (POs) around the world are carrying out activities related to the Toxics-Free SDGs Campaign. These activities address agroecology, chemicals in products, endocrine disrupting chemicals, hazardous chemicals in the lifecycle of electronics, highly hazardous pesticides, lead in paint, women and chemicals, workplace right-to-know, zero waste, chemicals in plastics, and other issues.

Highly Hazardous Pesticides

Agroecology: a viable option to phasing out Highly Hazardous Pesticides from Ethiopia

Thursday, 14 May 2020 - 1:24pm

In Ethiopia, there are a number of tested means that support the process of phasing out the use of highly hazardous pesticides by replacing them with ecology-based crop production systems. With the involvement of different civil society organizations and support from the government extension systems, the ecological farming initiative is building momentum. There are a number of best practices and success stories in reducing and avoiding the use of toxic chemicals by replacing them with alternatives. Read about them in this report prepared by Pesticide Action Nexus Association.

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Highly Hazardous Pesticides

Report on the Situation of HHPs and Alternatives in Armenia

Wednesday, 13 May 2020 - 12:27pm
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POPs

Low POPs Content Levels in Francophone Africa- Togo

Wednesday, 18 March 2020 - 5:06pm
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SAICM

Chemical management will enter the spotlight

Monday, 13 January 2020

https://cen.acs.org/business/CENs-World-Chemical-Outlook-2020/98/i2

by Cheryl Hogue

A key sustainability goal for industry, governments, and environmentalists in 2020 is expanding efforts to improve the management of commercial chemicals.

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SAICM

IPEN Views of the SAICM 3rd Intersessional Meeting (IP3)

Wednesday, 25 September 2019

IPEN's "Views of the SAICM 3rd Intersessional Meeting (IP3)” (中文, English, русский, español, français, العربية) document addresses issues that will be taken up at the IP3, including process considerations; an enabling framework; targets, indicators and milestones; governance; and more.

To read the document, and learn more about IPEN's activities at the 3rd Intersessional Meeting, please visit this page.

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SAICM

IPEN Views of SAICM 3rd Intersessional Meeting (IP3)

Monday, 23 September 2019 - 5:34am
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SAICM

Thought Starter on Beyond 2020 Indicators and Milestones: Chemical Safety Contributions to the SDGs

Monday, 23 September 2019

Targets, indicators and milestones are a key component of the new "Beyond 2020" chemical safety agreement because they provide an important measure of what the new agreement will accomplish. IPEN has prepared a thought starter that proposes targets, indicators and milestones that reflect tangible outcomes to reduce harms in the real world and links these results to the achievement of defined Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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Pesticides

Update on the use of highly hazardous pesticides in six African countries: Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia

Monday, 23 September 2019 - 1:15am

Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs) are a threat to human health and the environment, with significant impacts on developing and transition countries. In 2015, more than 100 governments at the 4th International Conference on Chemicals Management agreed that HHPs were an issue of global concern and reached a consensus resolution to give priority to the promotion of agroecological alternatives in the process of implementing the strategy on HHPs developed by FAO-UNEP-WHO.[1] 

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