Fwd: [e-waste] Part 2: ICCM3 electronics opportunities
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From: Joe DiGangi <j...@ipen.org>
Date: Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 1:36 AM
Subject: [e-waste] Part 2: ICCM3 electronics opportunities
To: Joe DiGangi <j...@ipen.org>, e-w...@npogroups.org
Cc: anoth...@gmail.com, san...@amrc.org.hk, marks...@comcast.net, Hua Mei Chiu <fsc...@gmail.com>, mandyh...@gmail.com, Sarah Westervelt <swest...@ban.org>
Dear Colleagues,
Thanks to all who responded with an interest in planning for electronics decisions at ICCM3! I am happy to report that we have three teams of people for the upstream, midstream, and downstream parts of the electronics lifecycle. The groups are pasted in below at the end of the note.
As I mentioned last time, the first task before us is to develop our proposals for a decision at ICCM3. Here are three things I think each sub-group needs to do:
1. Check the proposal to add electronics to the Global Plan of Action (see document in Links section below.) Are all the important elements present in the proposal? Are the right actors listed? What about timelines? It would be great to receive a tracking changes document from each sub-group that includes suggested edits to the proposal, if any.
2. Develop recommendations for the decision on electronics at ICCM3. Good text for these recommendations can be obtained from the Vienna recommendations (see link below). Note that there is *very* strong pressure to have really short decisions. You can see an example of a decision in the links section below from ICCM2. The custom is to combine all four emerging issues into a single large decision. What does that mean for us? Each sub-group will have to be able to *prioritize* the things it really wants in the decision the most. Obviously we will propose a bigger list than will likely end up in the document. However, if we already know our priorities, we will have an advantage.
3. Develop concrete actions to take work on electronics forward. This is probably the hardest part of our work. It would be most helpful if each group can think of at least one concrete activity including which institutions should be part of it. An example of concrete activities might be the Chemicals in Products project. You can see an outline of what this Project did here: http://www.saicm.org/index.php?menuid=9&pageid=422&submenuheader= You can see the decision that led to creating it at the link below called “example of a decision.” The Chemicals in Products Project has two things that we do not have *so far*: UNEP as institutional facilitator and a country champion to organize it and provide money (Sweden). Overall, it is really important to have ICCM3 decide on concrete actions so that global work on electronics keeps moving forward. Otherwise, this emerging policy issue will die at ICCM3.
Special note to colleagues working on the downstream area: The electronics issue provoked a bitter fight at ICCM2, primarily over the downstream part of the lifecycle. Ewaste “source” countries accused the proponent of the issue (Professor Oladele Osibanjo of Nigeria) of trying to “recreate the Basel Convention”. “Source” countries said that Basel was “already taking care of the ewaste issue” and that SAICM should not work on hazardous chemicals in ewaste because it duplicates the Basel Convention. It would be really helpful if the Downstream sub-group could include how your recommendations do *not* duplicate the Basel Convention.
To begin our work, it would be helpful to have one person from each sub-group serve as the coordinator and get in touch with the other members. Here is my proposal for coordinators (all these people have agreed ;)). Since I have everyone’s email address, I will make sure that each sub-group coordinator has list of emails so they can communicate with you.
Upstream: There are only 3 of us so we will figure something out
Midstream: Jeong-ok Kong, Korean Institute of Labor, Safety, and Health
Downstream: Tadesse Amera, Pesticide Action Nexus Association Ethiopia
One last thing before ending this gigantic email: It would be great to get a work product from each sub-group by 8 March. I can combine the outputs of the three sub-groups and resend to the electronics list so we and other colleagues can see the entire picture and make some additional comments and suggestions.
I will begin by sending a list of sub-group emails and participants to each coordinator. Then we begin the work!
Thanks again and good luck to us all!
Best regards,
Joe D.
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Joseph DiGangi, PhD
Senior Science and Technical Advisor
IPEN
Links
Example of decision: ICCM2 decision on emerging policy issues; see part D for electronics
Only available in English
Short document on progress on hazardous chemicals in electronics
Arabic: http://www.saicm.org/documents/OEWG/Meeting%20documents/OEWG1%2011_Electrical%20EP%20A.pdf
Chinese: http://www.saicm.org/documents/OEWG/Meeting%20documents/OEWG1%2011_Electrical%20EP%20C.pdf
English: http://www.saicm.org/documents/OEWG/Meeting%20documents/OEWG1%2011_Electrical%20EP%20E.pdf
French: http://www.saicm.org/documents/OEWG/Meeting%20documents/OEWG1%2011_Electrical%20EP%20F.pdf
Russian: http://www.saicm.org/documents/OEWG/Meeting%20documents/OEWG1%2011_Electrical%20EP%20R.pdf
Spanish: http://www.saicm.org/documents/OEWG/Meeting%20documents/OEWG1%2011_Electrical%20EP%20S.pdf
Vienna recommendations on hazardous chemicals in electronics
Only available in English
Proposed additions to the Global Plan of Action (includes nano and electronics; see Annex 3 for electronics)
Arabic: http://www.saicm.org/documents/OEWG/Meeting%20documents/OEWG1%208_GPA%20Additions%20A.doc
Chinese: http://www.saicm.org/documents/OEWG/Meeting%20documents/OEWG1%208_GPA%20Additions%20C.doc
English: http://www.saicm.org/documents/OEWG/Meeting%20documents/OEWG1%208_GPA%20Additions%20E.doc
French: http://www.saicm.org/documents/OEWG/Meeting%20documents/OEWG1%208_GPA%20Additions%20F.doc
Russian: http://www.saicm.org/documents/OEWG/Meeting%20documents/OEWG1%208_GPA%20Additions%20F.doc
Spanish: http://www.saicm.org/documents/OEWG/Meeting%20documents/OEWG1%20INF10%20_ICCM2%20report%20S.doc
Electronics teams
Upstream
Idris Imran, Global Initiative for Hazardous Waste and Management Disposal
Joe DiGangi, IPEN
Mark Rossi, Clean Production Action
Midstream
Amanda Hawes, Worksafe
Jeong-ok Kong, Korean Institute of Labor, Safety, and Health
Hua Mei Chiu, Citizen’s of the Earth Taiwan
Sanjiv Pandita, Asia Monitor Resource Center
Shahriar Hossain, Environment and Social Development Organization
Downstream
Gilbert Kuepouo, Centre de Recherche et d'Education pour le Développement
Idris Imran, Global Initiative for Hazardous Waste and Management Disposal
Imogen Ingram, Island Sustainability Alliance
Jim Puckett, Basel Action Network
Leslie Adogame, SRADev Nigeria
Lilian Corra, Asociacion Argentina de Medicos por el Medio Ambiente
Richard Gutierrez, Ban Toxics
Shahriar Hossain, Environment and Social Development Organization
Tadesse Amera, Pesticide Action Nexus Association Ethiopia
Yuyun Ismawati, Indonesia Toxics Free Network
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