DATE: Thursday, April 4
TIME: 14:00-15:30 CEST
RECORDING: Now available above.
BACKGROUND: The webinar is intended to provide input for the upcoming 3rd and last scheduled meeting of the Open-Ended Working Group for establishing a science-policy panel (SPP) on chemicals, waste and pollution prevention, which will take place in Geneva, June 17-21, 2024.
The SPP will have several functions, including “horizon scanning”, “conducting assessments of current issues” and “identifying potential evidence-based options to address, where possible, those issues, in particular those relevant to developing countries”.
Our webinar will feature Katerina Sebkova (RECETOX, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic), Robert Watson (Senior Advisor, SPP), and Rachel Radvany (CIEL, Geneva, Switzerland), who will share their ideas on the potential topics for the SPP assessments and outputs they would like to see.
RELEVANT IPCP POLICY BRIEFS:
Prerequisites for an Effective Science-Policy Panel on Chemicals, Waste and Pollution, https://www.ipcp.ch/activities/ipcp-policy-briefs-spp-prerequisites
Priority Setting Models for the New Science-Policy Panel on Chemicals, Waste and Pollution Prevention – Learning from IPCC and IPBES, https://www.ipcp.ch/activities/priority-setting-models-for-the-new-science-policy-panel
Conflicts of Interest in the Assessment of Chemicals, Waste and Pollution, https://www.ipcp.ch/activities/ipcp-policy-brief-conflicts-of-interest-in-the-assessment-of-chemicals-waste-and-pollution
INFORMATION SHARED BY THE SPEAKERS:
Ad hoc open-ended working group on a science-policy panel on chemicals, waste and pollution prevention, https://www.unep.org/oewg-spp-chemicals-waste-pollution
Wang Z, Altenburger R, Backhaus T, Covaci A, Diamond ML, Grimalt JO, Lohmann R, Schäffer A, Scheringer M, Selin H, Soehl A, Suzuki N. (2021) We need a global science-policy body on chemicals and waste. Science 371(6531). Free access: https://www.ipcp.ch/activities/developing-a-global-science-policy-body-for-chemical-pollution
Wang Z, Summerson I, Lai A, Boucher JM, Scheringer M. (2019) Strengthening the science-policy interface in international chemicals governance: A mapping and gap analysis. https://zenodo.org/record/2559189
[CLOSED] Sign-on Campaign: Developing a global science-policy body on chemicals and waste, https://www.ipcp.ch/activities/developing-a-global-science-policy-body-for-chemical-pollution
CIEL. (2020) Financing the sound management of chemicals beyond 2020: Options for a coordinated tax. https://www.ciel.org/reports/chemicalstax/