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Join IPEN for the first in a series of briefings on the upcoming Global Framework on Chemicals (GFC) conference and the GFC Gender Action Plan.
📅 June 15
🕒 9pm Manila | 3pm CEST
Register:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Ur3Zj-O0TtKCSuc1tR2Msw
Germany remained the world's largest exporter of plastic waste in 2025, despite efforts to reduce global waste dumping.
Reporting by The Guardian raises questions about the environmental burdens shifted onto lower income countries.
🔗 Read more: https://ow.ly/wFGk50Z8PCF
In 2025, IPEN members continued to drive impact at the national and regional level through advocacy, research, and legal action. Check out some of the highlights, with more coming soon.
These examples show how local efforts can lead to meaningful outcomes.
📄 Learn more: https://ow.ly/sK4N50Z8JeX
IPEN partner Project TENDR has published a new paper in Environment International examining threats from plastic chemicals and microplastics to children's developing brains.
🔗 Read more: https://ow.ly/7tAw50Z6HUk
💻 Watch the webinar with several of the authors:
https://ow.ly/z4uN50Z6HUl
On World Environment Day, IPEN is calling for global controls on lead chromates, the pigments used in lead paint.
It is past time to eliminate lead paint globally to protect children’s health.
🔗 Read more: https://ow.ly/WWAo50Z7Hly
Ahead of World Environment Day, a new report from the Philippines warns that phthalates and bisphenols, hormone disrupting plastic chemicals, are linked to serious health concerns and require a strong global Plastics Treaty.
🔗 Read more: https://ow.ly/jTzV50Z6Jyc
A recent article in Environmental Science & Policy describes the Plastics Treaty process as a “plastics Game of Thrones,” warning industry influence is obscuring the root causes of the plastics crisis: fossil fuel extraction and plastic production.
🔗 https://ow.ly/hjpU50Z5a9z
Endocrine disrupting chemicals are linked to a growing range of health concerns, including reproductive disorders, metabolic disease, neurological impacts, and immune dysfunction.
Read the IPEN and Endocrine Society report: https://ow.ly/P35Z50Z5VHn
Plastic pollution is increasingly affecting artisanal fisheries and shaping marine policy discussions in Central America and the Caribbean.
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Infobae informa que la contaminación por plásticos afecta cada vez más a la pesca artesanal en centroamericana y caribeña.
https://ow.ly/jKYN50Z4Gt9
🚨Annual Report Highlight!
In 2025, IPEN advanced work to help reduce toxic exposures at the national and community level, including generating new data and informing policies that reduce exposure to toxic chemicals.
📄 Read the full report: https://ow.ly/t0Bv50Z5cFA
2 June 2026, Davao City/Quezon City. Before World Environment Day on June 5, health and environmental groups in the Philippines released a report
