Partnership Advisory Group Meeting 15

The Partnership Advisory Group will hold its fifteenth meeting on 10 December 2024 in an online setting, from 13:30 to 16:30 CET.

Participants are invited to register online to the Teams event.

Seizing the opportunity of the forthcoming twentieth anniversary of the Global Mercury Partnership, the meeting will be the occasion to discuss possible options for strengthening the Partnership contribution to the implementation of the Minamata Convention and other existing global action on mercury, share updates on recent and ongoing activities and exchange on priority topics for future work.

Provisional Agenda

1. Opening of the meeting
2. Organizational matters
   
   1. Adoption of the agenda
   2. Election of Partnership Advisory Group Co-Chair
   3. Welcoming of new co-leads
   4. Organization of work
3. Update from the Global Mercury Partnership areas of work and the Secretariat on key activities and future priorities
4. Implementing decisions from the fifth Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention (COP-5): Update from the secretariat of the Minamata Convention
5. Improving the overall effectiveness of the partnership moving forward: suggested details for implementing the structural and organizational updates
   
   1. Soft membership
   2. Strengthening the areas of work
   3. Roles and responsibilities
   4. Communication and outreach
6. Key decisions and way forward leading to the sixth Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention
7. Closure of the meeting