SPP on Chemicals, Waste & Pollution Prevention: Linking Science & Action Using a Life-Cycle Approach
Though chemicals play a vital part in daily life, science has shown that inadequate and poor management of chemicals and waste produced across value chains during chemicals’ life cycles has led to increasing pollution of land, water, and air. A life-cycle approach can help provide linkages between science and the actions needed to tackle the mounting pollution issues. It is expected that this science-policy panel will join existing science-policy panels such as IPCC and IPBES in addressing the triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and pollution.
This World Resources Forum 2023 Lab is an opportunity to provide an interactive platform to seek input on relationships of the new science-policy panel with relevant key stakeholders through a life-cycle approach – beginning with the minerals and resources community.
The Lab will brief this community about the ongoing ad hoc open-ended working group (OEWG) process that aims to establish an independent, intergovernmental science-policy panel to contribute further to the sound management of chemicals and waste and to prevent pollution. This Lab will then elicit initial views on possible linkages between the panel and the minerals and resources communities, approaching these from the full life cycle of chemicals.
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