The NGO/CSO Global Common Statement for a Toxics-Free Future was initiated by IPEN with input from members and our global partners to create greater awareness about and more effective responses to the toxic chemicals in our food, environment, economy and communities. In our statement we highlight the commitments made by the world’s governments at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, and, as we approached Rio+20, we demanded accountability and action by governments for the sustainable, toxics-free future that we want for the world and generations to come.
The NGO/CSO Global Common Statement for a Toxics-Free Future was developed to create greater awareness of the increasing amounts of toxic chemicals in the environment, our food, communities and children.
The endorsers of this statement have not forgotten the commitments made at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio. Twenty years later, Rio+20 offers little or nothing to ensure these rights.
20 June, 2012: IPEN Report-Back on Rio + 20
20 June, 2012: NGO Statement given in Plenary at Rio+20 meeting (given by Leida Rijnhout, ANPED)
