Guidance on monitoring to support the effectiveness evaluation - Reasoning behind the document - Minamata COP4 side event

The Partnership Area on Mercury Air Transport and Fate Research together with the Biodiversity Research Institute (BRI) organized on 4 November 2021 a side event on the Guidance on monitoring of mercury and mercury compounds to support the effectiveness evaluation of the Minamata Convention, in the margins of the first segment of the fourth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention (1 to 5 November 2021).

Over the past 18 months, members of the Partnership Area and other scientists have generated a guidance document for monitoring mercury to support the implementation of the requirements stated in Article 22 (Effectiveness Evaluation) of the Minamata Convention. The side event aimed to describe the resulting document entitled the "Guidance on Monitoring of Mercury and Mercury Compounds to Support the Effectiveness Evaluation of the Minamata Convention on Mercury" (UNEP/MC/COP.4/INF/12), and its supplementary material.