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Addressing Pharmaceuticals in the Environment through a Lifecycle Approach Event Series
This series of events co-organized by the United Nations Environment Programme in cooperation with the World Health Organization, the Geneva Environment Network, and other key partners aims to raise awareness and share best practices, challenges and opportunities to address pharmaceuticals release into the environment.
About the Event Series
Pharmaceuticals play a critical role in maintaining human and animal health, enhancing food production, and driving economic prosperity. However, their release into the environment—whether during manufacturing, use, or end of life — may pose significant risks. These include contributing to antimicrobial resistance, endocrine disruption, and toxic effects on ecosystems and public health.
The United Nations Environment Programme, in cooperation with the World Health Organization, the Geneva Environment Network, and other key partners, is organizing a series of events to raise awareness and share best practices, challenges and opportunities to address this pressing issue. The virtual events bring together experts, decision makers and other relevant stakeholders from around the world to discuss innovative practices throughout pharmaceutical lifecycle and across key sectors such as pharmaceutical manufacturing, healthcare facilities, agriculture, food production, and municipalities/households, shedding light on the benefits of action as well as existing tools.
The series of events was launched at the 2025 Meetings of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions with the side event on “One Health Approach to Addressing Pharmaceuticals in the Environment Across Key Sectors”.
UNEP would like to acknowledge the financial contribution from the GEF and the Government of Sweden.
Events
Links
- Environmentally Persistent Pharmaceutical Pollutants (EPPPs) | UNEP
- One Health and the Role of Geneva
- Antimicrobial Resistance and the Environment
- Safe management of pharmaceutical waste from health care facilities: global best practices | WHO | 21 February 2025
- Guidance on wastewater and solid waste management for manufacturing of antibiotics | UNEP & WHO |
3 September 2024