UNEP Perspectives No. 22: In this 22nd issue of UNEP's "Perspectives" newsletter, eight representatives from NGOs, women's groups, Indigenous Peoples and local communities, as well as business and industry, shared their views of the UNEA2, as well as expectattions for UNEA3 in 2017. IPEN's Senior Science and Technical Advisor Dr. Joe DiGangi contributed an article, highlighting the need for UNEA3 to finalize a policy to ensure meaningful stakeholder engagement, begin a process to develop guidelines for partnerships, and focus the meeting on key outcomes.

IPEN Views of Selected Issues at UNEA2: This document is a summary statement of some IPEN views about issues that will be taken up at the UNEA2, including: stakeholder engagement, sound management of chemicals and wastes, lead and cadmium, lead battery recycling, sustainable consumption and production, and marine plastic debris and micro plastics. العربية / English / español / русский / français

Joint Press Release from IPEN Participating Organizations PAN- Ethiopia; CREPD- Cameroon; CJGEA- Kenya; and AGENDA- Tanzania, and Oeko-Institut, about a study on the health and environmental hazards facing many Africans from recovery of lead from waste batteries, the practice commonly referred to as Used Lead Acid Battery (ULAB) recycling. This issue is on the UNEA2 agenda.  

IPEN posters created for the UNEA2-

The costs of a rapidly growing chemical industry are unsustainable

IPEN: A Toxics-Free Future

Support a Safe Chemicals Agenda