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        Linn Persson

      • SEI Affiliated Researcher
      • Role(s): Affiliated with Headquarters
      • Expertise: chemicals management, chemical pollution, international environmental agreements
      • linn.persson@kemi.se
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      Linn Persson is an SEI Affiliated Researcher with SEI Headquarters. She is Head of the International unit at the Swedish Chemicals Agency. Between 2005 and 2021, Linn worked at SEI HQ and SEI Asia Centre as Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Governance and Institutions Unit.

      Linn has a PhD in Environmental Chemistry and her areas of expertise are chemical pollution, chemicals management and policy, and international environmental agreements. Her earlier work experience includes UNEP Chemicals in Geneva, the Swedish Embassy in Kenya and the Department of Applied Environmental Science, Stockholm University, Sweden.

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      Publications by Linn Persson

      • Outside the safe operating space of the planetary boundary for novel entities
      • Environmental pressure from Swedish consumption: The largest contributing producer countries, products and services
      • Indicators for national consumption-based accounting of chemicals
      • Miljöpåverkan från svensk konsumtion – Nya indikatorer för uppföljning
      • Environmental impacts from Swedish consumption: new indicators for follow-up
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      Perspectives by Linn Persson

      • 4 key ingredients for chemical safety beyond 2020

      Featured stories with Linn Persson

      • Sustainable production meets sustainable consumption
      • New SEI initiative hosts dialogue for unique grouping of trade sustainability actors
      • Planetary boundaries analysis highlights need for better policies on chemicals
      • Q&A: Linn Persson on meeting the 2020 goal on chemicals management
      • Novel research on scaling down planetary boundaries
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      Projects and tools with Linn Persson

      • PRINCE
      • PRINCE
      • SEI Initiative on Producer to Consumer Sustainability
      • National implementation of SAICM in developing countries - prospects for achieving sound chemicals management - TG11
      • Progress in Renewable Energy and Biofuels Sustainability (PREBS)
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