CHE-Alaska call: "International Actions to Protect Health & the Environment – A Report from the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs Treaty) and Global Measures to Ban PFAS" was recorded on May 22, 2019. You will need to download the presentation to follow along: https://www.akaction.org/webinars/international-actions-to-protect-health-the-environment-a-report-from-the-stockholm-convention-on-persistent-organic-pollutants-pops-treaty-and-global-measures-to-ban-pfas/

SPEAKERS:
Pamela Miller, Co-Chair International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN) and Executive Director, Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT)
Vi Waghiyi, Environmental Health and Justice Program Director, ACAT
Samarys Seguinot-Medina, Environmental Health Program Director, ACAT

About the call: On this podcast, ACAT Executive Director, Pamela Miller discusses the outcomes of the  Stockholm, Basel, and Rotterdam Conventions held in Geneva, Switzerland in late April/ early May. All three treaties address the need to take action on the world’s most dangerous chemicals. Significant progress was made on PFAS compounds and plastics. ACAT's Vi Waghiyi and Samarys Seguinot-Medina share the intervention statements they made at the Stockholm Convention.