Minamata Online: Mercury emission from coal

The Global Mercury Partnership Area on Mercury Releases from Coal Combustion, the Secretariat of the Minamata Convention and the International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant co-organized a webinar on “Mercury emissions from coal” as part of Minamata Online Sessions Season 2, on Wednesday 17 November 2021.

The event focused on Article 8 of the Minamata Convention and the challenges of evaluating and reducing emissions from utilities and industry. It highlighted the importance of data to inform policy decisions, and featured recent work in Indonesia demonstrating how relatively simple data analyses can inform effective mercury reduction strategy at the national level.

Speakers:

• Lesley Sloss, International Centre for Sustainable Carbon
• Anton Purnomo, Basel and Stockholm Conventions Regional Centre for Southeast Asia
• Wojciech Jozewicz, Atlantic Energy Associates
• Peter Nelson, Macquarie University
• Itsuki Kuroda, Ministry of the Environment Japan
• Asif Qureshi, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
• Joy Leaner, Co-chair, International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant 2022
• Eisaku Toda, Secretariat of the Minamata Convention on Mercury

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