Category: Programas

Program: Citizenship and engagement

The projects and activities of this Toxisphera’s program include the following guidelines and objectives:

  • To strengthen the capacities of society groups (CSOs, workers’ unions, women, traditional and indigenous peoples, etc.) to understand risks, impacts and ways of preventing exposure and environmentally sound control of chemicals and wastes
  • Support the formation and participate in the strengthening of citizen networks and alliances to influence locally and nationally the environmentally sound management of chemicals and wastes
  • Contribute to the construction and expansion of knowledge on the national legal framework and the international treaties on chemicals ratified by the Brazilian State.

Program: National governance of public policies for environmentally sound management of chemicals and hazardous waste

In this program, Toxisphera carries out activities and projects especially concerning:

  • Follow-up and advocacy on CONAMA – Brazilian National Environment Council and other technical and political groups of diverse stakeholders and sectors, as well as on federal regulatory agencies.
  • Participation as civil society representative in the National Commission on Chemical Safety (CONASQ) of the Brazilian Ministry of Environment – multisectoral and multi-stakeholder mechanism coordinator of chemical safety policies and international treaties in Brazil.
  • Monitoring compliance with policies and rights to information and participation for the environmentally sound management of chemicals and their waste.

 

 

Program: International governance of chemicals and wastes

Comprises activities and projects associated with:

Follow-up and advocacy with binding regimes on chemicals and their hazardous waste: Minamata Convention on Mercury, Stockholm Convention on POPs – persistent organic pollutants, Basel and Rotterdam Conventions (the last three are “chemical” conventions, whose Conferences of the Parties – CoPs – are held together).

  • Follow-up and advocacy with binding regimes on chemicals and their hazardous waste: Minamata Convention on Mercury, Stockholm Convention on POPs – persistent organic pollutants, Basel and Rotterdam Conventions (the last three are “chemical” conventions, whose Conferences of the Parties – CoPs – are held together).
  • Follow-up and international advocacy with voluntary processes (no legal binding – soft Law): SAICM and Agenda 2030.
  • Participation and advocacy related to the multilateral negotiation, started in 2022, of a new global treaty on plastic pollution.

Toxisphera’s Programmes

Toxisphera approaches its activities from a programmatic perspective, considering that the challenges of confronting the various major crises (climate, loss of biodiversity, environmental pollution, inequality, poverty, and lack of information for the population) require articulated and comprehensive approaches so that, in the short and medium term, they can generate fair systemic transitions.