Madagascar🇲🇬 had participed in Africa Regional Workshop-Lead Paint Law Development and Implémentation in Africa, organized in Nairobi, Kenya 22-23rd June 2022. @BanLeadPaint
Launch of the projet of roadmap of pollution for 10 years in Madagascar🇲🇬 coordinated by the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development with the support of @GAHP_Global and honored by the Embassy of Switzerland🇨🇭 in Madagascar. @FightPollution
🙏 au Directeur Général du Développement Durable du MEDD 🇲🇬 et à la Coordinatrice de l’Assemblée mondiale sur la santé et la pollution d’avoir invité l’Ambassade de 🇨🇭 au lancement de la Feuille de Route sur la pollution à Madagascar 🇲🇬 ce matin à #Antsirabe. @HealthPollution
What will it take to put lead poisoning in top of the agenda again? Please tell me - this is the big question. It deserves it. Lead is killing more people than malaria, doubling violent crime, dumbing down 1/3 if the world.
What happened at #UNEA 5.2
Related to chemical/toxics/plastics?
A lot:
UNEA Moved to
End Plastic Pollution #PlasticsTreaty
+
Action on
#EDCs
Highly Hazardous Pesticides #HHPs
Elevating the Science on the harm from chemicals (science 2 policy)
See ⬇️ https://t.co/zuczbpVHFq
We are facing triple planetary crisis- Climate, Nature and Pollution.
👉 @UNEA5 will helps strengthen international efforts to tackle these three crises.
Children experience far greater negative effects from lead poisoning than adults, and the damage can be irreversible.
This is what governments must do now to protect children’s health.
#ILPPW2021
La gestion rationnelle des #ProduitsChimiques est nécessaire pour protéger la #santé de la pop & l'#environnement de leurs effets néfastes.
Dissemination ce jour à Antananarivo des résultats des études & analyses de la situation à Mada🇲🇬 par l'Observatoire des #ProduitsChimiques
“It’s like detective work saying 'Why is this child being poisoned?’ & then working your way back," says Pure Earth's @JCaravanos. Read abt our "movement to clean up the world's most #ToxicSites" in @RTB_Cheerful https://t.co/MKkwJkobsL
(Photo: Jack tests playground for lead)
Congratulations to #Ukraine🇺🇦 for limiting lead levels in paint sold or made in the country to 90 mg/kg!🖌️
Lead is toxic to everyone, and children are especially vulnerable.
@UNEP works with countries to #BanLeadPaint. Learn more👉https://t.co/aAbzE53VwO
👉Today IOMC webinar on Illegal Trade And Traffic of Industrial Chemicals Pesticides and waste managment of chemicals and waste Beyond 2020. @IOMC@UNITAR