Safer Chemicals in Products 2018

Chair:

Joel Tickner

Executive Director, Change Chemistry

• Rationale and expectations of a UN Environment “Global Chemicals Outlook”
• Focus and outcomes of the first Global chemicals Outlook (GCO-I)
• Scope and focus of second Global Chemicals Outlook (GCO-II)
• Process and Timeline
• Expected outcomes of GCO-II
• Lesson learned and relevance of GCO in promoting the sound management of chemicals

Pierre Quiblier

Programme Officer, UN Environment

• What are the barriers?
• Traceability and identifying what’s there – the value of knowing the source
• Dealing with legacy issues and the challenge of long lifecycles
• Is labelling the answer to mark the change we wish to see?
• Who decides what can go around the loop and how do regulations ensure compliance
• In view of the tensions, is compromise inevitable?

Paul Ashford

Managing Director, Anthesis-Caleb, UK

Companies are driving innovation through their practices as well as by advocating for policies to advance the transition from toxic substances toward safer chemicals and products.  This session will explore some of the latest company efforts that are driving innovation, increasing productivity, and developing safer products. We will also explore the latest policy work by business organizations and companies from protecting Safer Choice, Ingredient Disclosure bills to advancing sustainable procurement.

Moderator: David Levine, Co-founder and President American Sustainable Business Council

Panel will include representatives from:

• Martin Wolf, Director, Sustainability & Authenticity, Seventh Generation Inc
• Susan Inglis, Executive Director, Sustainable Furnishings Council
• Laura Walther, American Chemistry Council

Moderator: Kathleen Sellers, President, Product Stewardship Society, Technical Director, ERM, USA

Panel to include:

• David Constable, Director, ACS- Green Chemistry Institute
• Edwin Bisinger, Regional PSRA Manager, Americas, Akzo Nobel
• Rajesh Ramamurthy, Head-Product Stewardship Asia, Archroma, India

• ChemSec and the ChemSec business group
• Why substitution makes a good business case
• The need for visibility of alternatives
• The idea behind the Marketplace and its first year
• Future of the Marketplace

Jerker Ligthart

Senior chemicals advisor, ChemSec

• Update on a cross-country analysis of approaches to support substitution and alternatives assessment
• Design of sustainable plastics from a chemicals perspective
• PFASs - Shifting to alternatives
• Update on OECD’s Substitution and Alternatives Assessment Toolbox

Eeva Leinala

Principal Administrator, Risk Management, Mutual Acceptance of Data and Good Laboratory Practices, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)