{"id":118621,"date":"2025-04-05T15:00:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/?p=118621"},"modified":"2025-10-03T14:55:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T12:55:05","slug":"chemicals-wg-meeting-10-11october-brussels-online-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-3-2-3-2-6-5-2-2-2-3-4-2-2-2-3-6-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/es\/addressing-staggering-costs-of-pfas-pollution\/","title":{"rendered":"Addressing the Staggering Costs of PFAS Pollution &#8211; 23 September 2025 &#8211; Brussels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Addressing the Staggering Costs of PFAS Pollution<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.office.com\/Pages\/ResponsePage.aspx?id=F45BUB4OzkOeMUT4b9svtdBvnp9cWEFOneMypDCtMUtURVpHOFFCNEtQQk5TNlY4UDdCQlpYQzRBOS4u&amp;utm_source=Chemicals+Working+Group&amp;utm_campaign=c7ba0707d8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_12_12_02_59_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_038d0aca3d-c7ba0707d8-\">Register Now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Registration deadline<\/em><\/strong>: 17 September<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><b><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><em>When<\/em>:<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> 23 September 2025, 16:00 \u2013 20:00 CET<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><b><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><em>Where<\/em>:<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> Permanent Representation of France to the EU<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"x_xmsonormal\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Pollution by per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) is a <strong>major threat to public health, the environment and the economy<\/strong>. Widespread contamination of goods, water, soil and food sources has led to increased costs for waste and water management, soil remediation, healthcare and litigation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_xmsonormal\">Organized jointly by the French Permanent Representation to the EU, the European Environmental Bureau (EEB) and Hazardous Waste Europe (HWE), this event will bring together experts, stakeholders and institutions to <strong>address the most pressing environmental and technical concerns<\/strong> about PFAS and their costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_xmsonormal\">Join us for two stimulating and inspiring panel sessions on the following topics:<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_xmsonormal\"><strong>1)<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>The costs of PFAS pollution<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_xmsonormal\"><strong>2) Solutions to urgently tackle the costs of PFAS pollution<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The programme includes the participation of experts, scientists, the European Commission, the European Parliament and the permanent representation of France to the European Union.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:ugcPost:7370709613291397120\/?actorCompanyId=8646154\">LinkedIn post<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Agenda:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>16.00:<strong> Opening<\/strong> \u2013 <i>Margot Wallstr\u00f6m, former Vice-President of the European Commission<\/i><\/li>\n<li>16.15:<strong> Testimonies from citizens affected by PFAS pollution<\/strong> \u2013 <i>Citizens from Belgium and the Netherlands\u00a0<\/i><\/li>\n<li>16.30:<strong> The economic and societal costs of PFAS pollution <\/strong>\u2013 Facilitated by EEB (45\u2019 + 15\u2019 Q&amp;A)\n<ul>\n<li><i>Hans Peter Arp, Norwegian University of Science and Technology<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Gretta Goldenman, Coordinator of the Global PFAS science panel<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Nicolas Humez, Chairman, Hazardous Waste Europe<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Oliver Loebel, Secretary General, EurEau\u00a0<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>17.30:<strong> Coffee break\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>18.00:<strong> Solutions and tools to address PFAS pollution <\/strong>\u2013 Facilitated by HWE (40\u2019 + 20\u2019 Q&amp;A)\n<ul>\n<li><i>Patrick ten Brink, Secretary General of the EEB<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>A representative of the Netherlands<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Veronica Manfredi, Director of Zero Pollution, Water Resilience &amp; Green Urban Transition (ENV.C), European Commission<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>MEP Martin Hojs\u00edk<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Naoufel Menadi, General Manager, Leviathan Dynamics<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>19.00:<strong> Conclusions<\/strong> \u2013 <i>Cyril Piquemal<\/i><\/li>\n<li>19.10: <strong>Cocktail\u00a0<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nonhuman-nonsense.com\/\">Nonhuman Nonsense<\/a> collective,<a href=\"https:\/\/nonhuman-nonsense.com\/hauntedwatersproject\"> Haunted waters project &#8211; The chemicals cocktail bar<\/a>. With the collaboration of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prototopia.eu\/\">Prototopia<\/a><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Addressing the Staggering Costs of PFAS Pollution Register Now Registration deadline: 17 September When: 23 September 2025, 16:00 \u2013 20:00 CET Where: Permanent Representation of France<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":118622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[193],"tags":[196],"class_list":["post-118621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-past-event","tag-events"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ec50a984-d892-2497-7d97-6360b06cc30e-e1756735753347.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}