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SAICM Implementation: Advancing the 2020 goal to protect our future from toxics

Learn about the implementation of the SAICM treaty and the efforts of IPEN in achieving the 2020 goal of sound chemicals management for sustainable development.

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SAICM Implementation: Advancing the 2020 goal to protect our future from toxics

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  1. SAICM Implementation: Advancing the 2020 goal to protect our future from toxics Prof. Jamidu H.Y. Katima IPEN Co-Chair CSD18 April 2010 www.ipen.org

  2. IPEN: POPs & SAICM • POPs – Persistent Organic Pollutants • IPEN – International POPs Elimination Network, 700+ NGO members & over100 countries • POPs Treaty- 1998-2001 POPs Treaty, 2002 onwards implementation of the treaty • ICCM & Expanded IPEN Mission: 2006 IPEN General Assembly adopted the Dubai Toxics-Free Future Declaration to reflect SAICM 2020 Goal www.ipen.org

  3. IPEN is working in the context of Sustainable Development Agenda No sustainable development without sound chemicals management: SAICM High Level Declaration, states: “The sound management of chemicals is essential if we are to achieve sustainable development, including the eradication of poverty and disease, the improvement of human health and the environment and the elevation and maintenance of the standard of living in countries at all levels of development.” www.ipen.org

  4. Global NGO Outreach: Making SAICM Relevant • Partners: Networks • Health Care Without Harm • IPEN • International Society of Doctors for Environment • Pesticide Action Network International • Women in Europe for Common Future • World Federation of Public Health Associations www.ipen.org

  5. Global NGO Outreach: Making SAICM Relevant • Global Outreach Campaign: Reach-out educate, orient and engage over 1,000 NGOs to endorse Common Statement and support SAICM www.ipen.org

  6. Global NGO Outreach: Making SAICM Relevant • Education Material: POPs, SAICM & Pesticides NOTE: Heavy Metals Booklets are pending www.ipen.org

  7. SAICM Regional Assessment: 8 Regional Reports • Identified Gaps • Weak and unbalanced engagement of stakeholders in the development of chemicals management strategies at national level • Insufficient human and technical capacity for implementing SAICM and monitoring results • Low level of public awareness about SAICM and chemical safety in general • Insufficient and unavailable information on chemical safety issues, including insufficient labeling and lack of information about potentially hazardous chemicals in products including e-waste, nonmaterial etc • Slow and non-transparent clean-up of contaminated sites and obsolete pesticides and continued accumulation of toxic waste • Lack of permanent and sustainable SAICM financing mechanism • Weak coordination at national level • Insufficient commitment to basic principles agreed upon in Rio 1992 www.ipen.org

  8. IPEN SAICM Implementation Campaigns: 2009 IPEN International Heavy Metals Program Lead & Mercury • 2008-2010 Global Campaign to eliminate lead from Paint • 2009 Launch Global Campaign to Eliminate Lead in Paint, 11 countries and growing; 317 paint samples, including 232 enamel samples, 78 plastic samples, and seven varnish samples www.ipen.org

  9. IPEN SAICM Implementation Campaigns: Results • 53% of samples were found to contain more than 90 ppm of lead, while 50 percent samples had lead concentrations of more than 600 ppm. • 68.5% of enamel samples had lead concentrations more than 90 ppm, while 65% percent of enamel samples had lead concentrations of more than 600 ppm. • The overall average of lead concentrations was 18,220.3 ppm, while for enamel samples the average was 23,707.1 ppm. For plastic samples, the average was 1,508.5 ppm. www.ipen.org

  10. IPEN SAICM Implementation Campaigns: Results • Multinational paint brands used in more than one country showed variation in lead concentrations for samples sourced from different countries. www.ipen.org

  11. IPEN SAICM Implementation Campaigns: Conclusion • Since 2006, SAICM implementation has advanced, but the pace has been slow and uneven. • SAICM implementation needs a sustainable financial mechanism and strong links to sustainable development – mainstreaming is key • Participation of public health and environmental NGOs, trade union and other civil society organization can not be ignored www.ipen.org

  12. Working Together for a Toxics-Free Future Learn more at: www.ipen.org

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