Annual Report 2024

IPEN’s 2024 Annual Report outlines our work and achievements through the year. Among other successes, in 2024 IPEN’s work in 2024 resulted in:

• Several chemicals and chemical groups advanced for Stockholm Convention listings for global elimination, including the pesticide chlorpyrifos, the plastic chemical group medium-chain chlorinated paraffins, the PFAS “forever chemicals” group long-chain perfluorocarboxylic acids, and brominated dioxins, hazardous chemicals that come from burning plastics.
• Significant progress was made toward a meaningful Plastics Treaty, with many delegations now echoing IPEN’s call for a Treaty that protects human health and includes obligations to eliminate harmful chemicals.
• Bringing attention to the crisis in the Arctic from plastics, chemicals, and climate change, our report in collaboration with Alaska Community Action on Toxics and Arctic Indigenous Peoples released at the Plastics Treaty negotiations called for a strong Treaty that protects Native lands, cultures, health and human rights, and Peoples.
• Raising greater attention to the everyday threats from exposures to harmful chemicals in plastics, our studies documented high levels of exposures to plastic waste workers and high-ranking UN officials, with coverage of our work in the New York Times and other media.
• Regulations banning lead paint were adopted or advanced in more than thirty countries.
• Following the 2023 adoption of a new Global Framework on Chemicals and the creation of the Global Alliance on Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs), in 2024 IPEN contributed two key science reports to advance the goals of eliminating HHPs by 2035 and to address toxic plastics: a report on work by IPEN member groups in 43 countries to expose threats from HHPs and a comprehensive report on EDCs with the Endocrine Society, with sections on EDC exposures from pesticides and plastics.

To learn more, view and download the report, below.