Partnership Advisory Group Meeting 14

The Partnership Advisory Group held its fourteenth meeting on 19 December 2023 in an online setting.

The meeting provided the opportunity to take stock of recent and ongoing activities and exchange on cross-cutting priority topics for future work.

Provisional agenda

1. Opening of the meeting
2. Organizational matters:
       (a) Election of Partnership Advisory Group Co-Chair
       (b) Adoption of the agenda
       (c) Organization of work
3. Update from the Global Mercury Partnership Secretariat and from Partnership Areas on key activities and future priorities
4. Update from the Inter-Organization Programme for the Sound Management of Chemicals
   (IOMC) on mercury related activities
5. Key outcomes from the fifth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata
   Convention (COP-5)
6. Future work of the Partnership: exploring opportunities for cross-cutting collaboration
       (a) Trade and flow
       (b) Biodiversity, climate change, and mercury
       (c) Any other topic
7. Improving the overall effectiveness of the Partnership in moving forward
8. Overview of preparations for the sixteenth International Conference on Mercury as a Global
   Pollutant (21 to 26 July 2024, Cape Town, South Africa)
9. Other matters
10. Closure of the meeting