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Chemicals of concern

Explore the impact of hazardous chemicals and substances of concern in the Buildings, Electronics, and Toys sectors. Discuss criteria for selecting chemicals, identify alternative substances, and explore alternative value chains for sound management. Join us in this thought-provoking session on January 16th at the Project Inception workshop in Geneva.

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Chemicals of concern

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  1. Chemicals of concern Session 3 – looking across product sectors to track and manage chemicals of concerns. A thought starter Sandra Averous and Jacqueline Alvarez – 16 January – Project Inception workshop, Geneva

  2. Lifecycle thinking Distribution and retail Raw materials End of life Consumer use Production RESULT: climate change, resource depletion, air, water and soil pollution INPUTS: energy, water, materials, chemicals, land OUTPUTS: greenhouse gases, emissions, effluent, solid waste 2

  3. A value chain approach for each sector HC = Hazardouschemicals, CoC = Chemicals of concern HC / CoC impact on workers HC / CoC impact on environmentoverall HC / CoC impact on consumers HC/CoC impact on informalsector, and in particularwomen and children. 3

  4. Chemicals of Concern 4

  5. Sub-categories of focus: Buildings: insulation materials, coatings, carpets, furniture lights? Electronics: TBD Toys: Plastics toys, Textiles Toys, Electronic toys.... 5

  6. Root causes and barriers to manage Chemicals of Concern Lack of transparency in supply chains Lack of economic and market based incentives for producers to track and manage hazardous chemicalsin their products and supply chains Lack of regulatory drivers for increased transparency Lack of quantitative sustainability assessment of hazardous chemicals and their alternatives, leading to‘regrettable substitutions’ • 1- • 1( • - 6

  7. Discussion What are the criteria for selectingCoC? Whatshouldbe the products/material in focus, for each of the 3 sectors? Whichadditional Chemicals of Concerns (CoCs) in the 3 sectors do weneed to consider: Buildings, Electronics and Toys? Are thereidentified alternative substances to the identifiedCoCs? Are there alternative business models and value chains, thatwouldsoundly manage thesechemicals of concern? 7

  8. Thank you (Insert the below information if required) Name of the presenter / division / unit / office Address / email / contact information (Maximum 5 lines of text is permitted) All in Roboto Regular 9pt.. www.unenvironment.org

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