Eliminating Lead Paint Matters! - February 2024

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorUnited Nations Environment Programme
dc.contributor.authorWorld Health Organization
dc.contributor.organizationIndustry and Economy Division
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-26T11:32:39Z
dc.date.available2024-02-26T11:32:39Z
dc.date.issued2024-02
dc.descriptionThe Global Alliance to Eliminate Lead Paint is pleased to present its February newsletter. The Alliance is working to achieve the phase-out of the manufacture, sale and import of paints containing lead through the establishment of laws. As of 16 January 2024, 94 countries – comprising 48% of all countries - have legally binding controls to limit the production, import, sale and use of lead paints. For a map and database, you can visit WHO’s Global Health Observatory webpage on legally binding controls on lead paint. The Alliance continues to make significant progress toward helping countries develop and implement legally binding controls on lead paint. For example, the UNEP project "Global Best Practices on Emerging Chemical Policy Issues of Concern under SAICM", which was financed by GEF and executed by the SAICM Secretariat, recently helped eleven additional small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to complete pilots on lead paint reformulation, bringing the total number SMEs assisted by the project to thirty-six. In addition, the profile of the work on lead paint was recently raised in January 2024 when the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Samantha Power was part of a discussion panel on “lead-free future” and made a call for a global drive to support low- and middle-income countries in rolling out and enforcing binding regulations to curtail lead in consumer goods like paint, spices, and cosmetics. As part of her remarks, she announced that USAID has joined the Global Alliance to Eliminate Lead Paint. The Alliance welcomes USAID as the first bilateral development agency to join the Alliance!en
dc.description.urihttps://www.unep.org/noleadinpaint
dc.formatpdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/44973
dc.languageEnglish
dc.rights.accessLevelPublic
dc.subjectlead contamination
dc.titleEliminating Lead Paint Matters! - February 2024en
dc.typeCommunication or other resource

Download

Original bundle

Showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
LPA-February2024.pdf
Size:
1.3 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
English
Download

Collections

Communication materials