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Promoting Sustainability in the Cleaning Products Community

Brenda Koekkoek, United Nations Environment Programme

MissionTo provide leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling

nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations.

• Assess global, regional and national environmental conditions and trends

• Develop international environmental instruments

• Strengthen institutions for wise management of the environment

Programme and approaches

Int’l Bans

Controlled / Restricted

Emerging Concern

Chemicals on the market

Chemicals with CAS Number

Global chemicals context

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

SDG 12 Responsible Consumption

and Production

• Promoting circularity

• Reducing waste

• Reusing materials

• Promoting sustainable lifestyles

• Redesigning how we create value from products and services

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SAICM is a voluntary body that

promotes chemical safety around

the world…

• Connects, convenes & catalyzes networks

• Builds capacity for sound management

• Addresses and identifies emerging policy issues

Objective: Achieve the sound management of

chemicals throughout their life cycle by 2020 so that

chemicals are produced and used in ways that

minimize significant adverse impacts on the

environment and human health.

• Governments• Industry• NGOs• Intergovernmental Organizations• Academia

Network Collaboration of multiple actors

Chemicals in Products

Highly hazardous pesticides

Nanotechnology

Pharmaceutical pollutants

Endocrine- disruptingchemicals

Perfluorinatedchemicals

Lead in Paint

Hazardouselectronics

SAICM Emerging Policy Issues

The SAICM overall objective runs until 2020, presenting

an opportunity to renew and rethink in moving forward

• The cleaning products industry can unlock system-level change globally, creating synergies with current efforts and addressing gaps which require urgent attention.

• Opportunity to engage in the third Strategic Approach Open-ended Working Group (OEWG) will take place in Montevideo, Uruguay from 2-4 April 2019.

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...to ensure healthy lives and a sustainable, safe planet for all

#saicm #chemicalsbeyond2020

For more informationwww.saicm.orgBrenda.koekkoek@un.org