October 27, 2021
08:00 PM in Philippine Time (Manila)
07:00 AM in Central Daylight Time (US and Canada)
IPEN is launching a global campaign to get Rotterdam Convention listings of the lead pigments that are used as paint ingredients. This webinar will discuss how listing lead pigments will advance global lead paint elimination; help countries adopt and enforce lead paint control regulations; and make exporting countries assume major responsibilities for the control of lead pigments and the lead paints that contain them.
Speakers
Jack Weinberg
Senior Policy Advisor @IPEN
Jack Weinberg is a member of IPEN’s Lead Paint Team and a past IPEN Co-Chair. He organized IPEN’s 1998 founding meeting, and he has been working with IPEN since its founding. Jack has been a campaigner and activist since the early 1960s and has worked on issues of civil rights, students’ rights, social justice, anti-war, worker’s rights, and the environment. Jack has been an international campaigner on issues relating to toxic pollutants and environmental health since 1990. He was the civil society representative on the intergovernmental committee that developed the proposal for governments to negotiate what became the Stockholm Convention on POPs.
Sofía Chavez
Director General @Casa Cem
Sofía Chavez is the founder and Director Genera of the IPEN PO Casa Cem in Mexico. She holds a Master of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Political Science. In 2007, she founded Casa Cem, an environmental organization with programs involving research, advocacy, public policy, education, communication, and cultural activities related to chemicals and waste. Sofia has also worked as a member of the consulting team for the “Evaluation of Waste Management Plans for Electrical and Electronic Devices in Mexico and Preparation of the Model Management Plan”, and has worked to oversee several lead-elimination projects for many years. She has also worked with informal recyclers about the proper handling and best practices of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), and has coordinated other waste-related initiatives in Mexico. She co-founded and served as coordinator of Recyclable Waste Citizen Collection Centers in the Guadalajara Metropolitan area.
Jeiel Guarino
Global Lead Paint Elimination Campaigner @IPEN
Jeiel Guarino is a chemist and works as a technical consultant at IPEN. He works as a global campaigner of IPEN’s Global Lead Paint Elimination Campaign, which aims to end the manufacture, import, export, sale, and use of lead-containing paints and similar surface coatings worldwide. He works with IPEN Participating Organizations (POs) in over 50 countries to undertake national paint studies and conduct awareness raising activities to reach out to key stakeholders from government, industry, and civil society—a multi-stakeholder approach to getting legally-binding regulations in place. He has experience working with paint industry associations, paint manufacturers and SMEs, and suppliers of alternatives to lead in their work to transition to non-lead paint production.
