Strengthening Action on Chemicals in the Electronics Sector: Workshop on Electronics “Addressing the challenge of chemicals of concern, enabling circular electronics” - Summary

The virtual workshop, organized by the Chemicals & Health Branch and Resources & Market Branch of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), gathered key stakeholders to explore different approaches for addressing chemicals of concern (CoC) in electronics, with a focus on how existing eco-labelling schemes (ecolabels) cover CoC and regulatory approaches that address CC in electronics. This workshop was part of the project entitled “Global best practices on emerging chemical policy issues of concern under the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM)”, which has been launched in 2019, is running through 2022 and is funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF). Activities under the project include analyzing the existing landscape of tools and approaches to track and address CoC in electronics and explore opportunities to advance circularity in this sector. The workshop was attended by 41 persons. The list of participants is provided as an annex.