DATE: Thursday, January 26, 2023
TIME: 14:30h CET (1.5 hour)
WHERE: This is a virtual event, please register via the form below.

This webinar aims to illustrate the role that private interests play in delaying actions that are intended to prevent adverse health impacts from toxic chemicals and waste. This event is timely because it comes before the upcoming negotiations at the Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG-1.2) from January 30 to February 3, 2023 to plan the creation of a science-policy panel for the sound management of chemicals and waste and to prevent pollution (aka an “IPCC for chemicals and waste”).

Each speaker has made a major contribution to uncovering, analyzing and communicating the role that private interests have played in delaying or preventing action when action was needed. They will be sharing their insights and “lessons learned” so that we can avoid the same or similar delaying actions in the context of this new science-policy panel.

HOST:
Martin Scheringer, IPCP Chair and Senior Scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland, and Professor of Environmental Chemistry at RECETOX, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

MODERATOR:
Jane Muncke, Managing Director of the Food Packaging Forum Foundation, Zürich, Switzerland

PANELISTS:
David Azoulay, Managing Attorney, Center of International Environmental Law, Geneva, Switzerland

Marcos Orellana, UN Rapporteur on Toxics and Human Rights and author of Right to science in the context of toxic substances, a report to United Nations Human Rights Council

Laura Vandenberg, Prof. at the School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA, and co-author of Distract, delay, disrupt: Examples of manufactured doubt from five industries and The science of spin: Targeted strategies to manufacture doubt with detrimental effects on environmental and public health

David Michaels, Prof. at George Washington University, Washington D.C., USA, and author of The triumph of doubt and Doubt is their product

Rob Bilott, Attorney at Taft Stettinius & Hollister, USA, and author of Exposure: Poisoned water, corporate greed, and one lawyer’s twenty-year battle against DuPont

REGISTRATION:
If you are unable to fill out the form below, please email the following information to admin(-at-)ipcp(-dot-)ch: Name, Academic degree, Position, Affiliation, City, Country and indicate that this is to register for January 26, 2023 webinar.