Publications

Policy briefs

Policy briefs developed by the IPCP as inputs to the United Nations Environment Programme’s process to establish the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Panel on Chemicals, Waste and Pollution (ISP-CWP) are available here: https://www.ipcp.ch/policy-briefs/

Peer-reviewed papers

Diamond ML, Sigmund G, Ågerstrand M, Bertram MG, Ford AT, Lohmann R, Schäffer A, Starling MCVM, Soehl A, Suzuki N, Vlahos P, Venier M, Scheringer M. 2026. A call to action: Engaging with the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Panel on Chemicals, Waste and Pollution. Environ. Sci. Technol. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.5c18169

Ford AT, Ågerstrand M, Bertram MG, Diamond ML, Lohmann R, Schäffer A, Scheringer M, Sigmund G, Soehl A, Starling MCVM, Suzuki N, Venier M, and Vlahos P. Corporate ‘capture strategies’ impacting human and ecosystem health. Environ. Sci. Technol. Lett. 2025;12(10):1279-1286. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.estlett.5c00277

Sigmund G, Venier M, Ågerstrand M, Cousins IT, DeWitt J, Diamond ML, Field J, Ford AT, Joudan S, van Leeuwen S, Lohmann R, Ng C, Scheringer M, Soehl A, Suzuki N, Trier X, Valsecchi S, Vlahos P, Young CJ, Wang Z. Scientists’ Statement on the chemical definition of PFASs. Environ. Sci. Technol. Lett. 2025;12 (9):1104-1106. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.estlett.5c00478

Sigmund G, Venier M, Ågerstrand M, Cousins IT, DeWitt J, Diamond ML, Field J, Ford AT, Joudan S, van Leeuwen S, Lohmann R, Ng C, Scheringer M, Soehl A, Suzuki N, Trier X, Valsecchi S, Vlahos P, Young CJ, Wang Z. Rebuttal to “Correspondence on ‘scientists’ statement on the chemical definition of PFASs”. Environ. Sci. Technol. Lett. 2025;12(11):1590-1592. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.estlett.5c00819

Diamond ML, Sigmund G, Bertram MG, Ford AT, Ågerstrand M, Carlini G, Lohmann R, Šebková K, Soehl A, Starling MCVM, Suzuki N, Venier M, Vlahos P, Scheringer M. Exploring outputs of the intergovernmental Science-Policy Panel on Chemicals, Waste, and Pollution Prevention. Environ. Sci. Technol. Lett. 2024. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.estlett.4c00294

Schäffer A, Groh KJ, Sigmund G, Azoulay F, Backhaus T, Bertram M, Carney Almroth B, Cousins I, Ford A, Grimalt JO, Guida Y, Hansson MC, Jeong Y, Lohmann R, Michaels D, Müller L, Muncke J, Öberg G, Orellana MA, Sanganyado E, Schäfer A, Sheriff RB, Sullivan RC, Suzuki N, Vandenberg LN, Venier M, Vlahos P, Wagner M, Wang F, Wang M, Soehl A, Ågerstrand M, Diamond ML, Scheringer M. Conflicts of interest in the assessment of chemicals, waste and pollution. Environ Sci Technol. 2023;57(48):19066–19077. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.3c04213

Carney Almroth B, Abeynayaka A, Diamond ML, Farrelly T, Fernandez M, Gündoğdu S, Issifu I, Rognerud I, Schäffer A, Scheringer M, Villarrubia-Gómez P, Varea R, Vlahos P, Wagner M, Ågerstrand M. Obstacles to scientific input in global policy. Science. 2023;380(6649):1021-1022. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi1103

Sigmund G, Ågerstrand M, Antonelli A, Backhaus T, Brodin T, Diamond ML, Erdelen WR, Evers DC, Hofmann T, Hueffer T, Lai A, Torres JPM, Mueller L, Perrigo AL, Rillig MC, Schaeffer A, Scheringer M, Schirmer K, Tlili A, Soehl A, Triebskorn R, Vlahos P, vom Berg C, Wang Z, Groh KJ. Addressing chemical pollution in biodiversity research. Global Change Biology. 2023;29(12):3240-3255. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.16689

Mueller LK, Ågerstrand M, Backhaus T, Diamond M, Erdelen WR, Evers D, Groh KJ, Scheringer M, Sigmund G, Wang Z, Schäffer A. Policy options to account for multiple chemical pollutants threatening biodiversity. Environ Sci: Adv. 2023;2:151-161. https://doi.org/10.1039/D2VA00257D

Ågerstrand M, Arinaitwe K, Backhaus T, Barra RO, Diamond ML, Grimalt JO, Groh K, Kandie F, Kurt-Karakus PB, Letcher R, Lohmann R, Meire RO, Oluseyi T, Schäffer A, Septiono M, Sigmund G, Soehl A, Sogbanmu TO, Suzuki N, Venier M, Vlahos P, Scheringer M. Key Principles for the Intergovernmental Science–Policy Panel on Chemicals and Waste. Environ Sci Technol. 2023;57(6):2205-2208. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.2c08283

Sigmund G, Ågerstrand M, Brodin T, Diamond ML, Erdelen WR, Evers DC, Lai A, Rillig MC, Schäffer A, Soehl A, Torres JPM, Wang Z, Groh KJ. Broaden chemicals scope in biodiversity targets. Science. 2022;376:1280-1280. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.add3070

Wang Z, Altenburger R, Backhaus T, Covaci A, Diamond ML, Grimalt JO,Lohmann R, Schäffer A, Scheringer M, Selin H, Soehl A, Suzuki N. We need a global science-policy body on chemicals and waste. Science. 2021;371:774-776. Free access linked here: https://www.ipcp.ch/developing-a-global-science-policy-body-for-chemical-pollution

Diamond ML, de Wit CA, Molander S, Scheringer M, Backhaus T, Lohmann R, Arvidsson R, Bergman Å, Hauschild M, Holoubek I, Persson L, Suzuki N, Vighi M, Zetzsch C. Exploring the planetary boundary for chemical pollution. Environ Int. 2015;78:8–15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2015.02.001

Scheringer M, Fiedler H, Suzuki N, Holoubek I, Zetzsch C, Bergman Å. Initiative for an International Panel on Chemical Pollution (IPCP). Environ Sci Pollut Res. 2007;13:432–434. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1065/espr2006.09.347

Scheringer M. Towards an Intergovernmental Panel on Chemical Pollution. Chemosphere. 2007;67:1682–1683. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2006.11.023

UNEP reports

United Nations Environment Programme and Secretariat of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions. 2023. Chemicals in plastics: a technical report. https://www.unep.org/resources/report/chemicals-plastics-technical-report

UNEP. 2017. Overview Report I: Worldwide initiatives to identify endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) and potential EDCs. https://www.unep.org/explore-topics/chemicals-waste/what-we-do/emerging-issues/endocrine-disrupting-chemicals

UNEP. 2017. Overview Report II: An overview of current scientific knowledge on the life cycles, environmental exposures, and environmental effects of select endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) and potential EDCs. https://www.unep.org/explore-topics/chemicals-waste/what-we-do/emerging-issues/endocrine-disrupting-chemicals

UNEP. 2017. Overview Report III: Existing national, regional and global regulatory frameworks addressing endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs). https://www.unep.org/explore-topics/chemicals-waste/what-we-do/emerging-issues/endocrine-disrupting-chemicals

Book chapter

Scheringer M, Bergman Å, Fiedler H. (2012) The International Panel on Chemical Pollution (IPCP), in: Wexler P., van der Kolk J., Mohapatra A, Agarwal R. (eds.) Chemicals, Environment, Health. A Global Management Perspective. Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, USA, 359–370. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.1201/b11064/chemicals-environment-health-asish-mohapatra-ravi-agarwal-jan-van-der-kolk-philip-wexler

Other publications and reports

Schäfer M, Scheringer M. 2023. Priority setting models for the new Science-Policy Panel on Chemicals, Waste and Pollution Prevention – Learning from IPCC and IPBES. https://zenodo.org/records/10210994

Uppsala Health Summit. 2023. Input to the meeting OEWG 2, December 2023, for the Science-Policy Panel on Chemicals, Waste and Pollution Prevention from the science community. https://www.ipcp.ch/2023-uppsala-health-summit-workshop

IPCP. 2023. Written response on operating principles governing the work of the Science-Policy Panel on Chemicals, Waste and Pollution Prevention. https://www.ipcp.ch/ipcp-response-on-operating-principles-governing-the-science-policy-panel

Sigmund G, Diamond ML, Vlahos P, Ågerstrand M, Alo B, Backhaus T, Castillo AC, Ford AT, Groh KJ, Grimalt JO, Guida Y, Kumar N, Lohmann R, Mestrot A, Molander S, Soehl A, Suzuki N, Schaeffer A, Torres JPM, Venier M, Wagner M, Wang M, Scheringer M. 2023. White Paper on the scope and functions of the future science-policy panel to contribute further to the sound management of chemicals, waste, and to prevent pollution. https://www.ipcp.ch/ipcp-white-paper-on-the-scope-and-functions-of-the-future-science-policy-panel

IPCP. 2021. Statement on the registration of polymers under REACH and list of signatures in support. https://www.ipcp.ch/polymer-statment

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. IPCP report. https://zenodo.org/records/2559189

IPCP. 2018. A thought starter on A possible model for the science-policy interface under the post 2020 framework. https://www.ipcp.ch/strengthening-the-science-policy-interface-in-international-chemicals-governance

IPCP. 2018. Strengthening the science-policy interface in international chemicals governance: A thought starter on options for a way forward. https://www.ipcp.ch/strengthening-the-science-policy-interface-in-international-chemicals-governance

IPCP. 2017. Input in response to the co-chairs’ summary of discussions at first meeting of the intersessional process. https://www.ipcp.ch/strengthening-the-science-policy-interface-in-international-chemicals-governance