Quick guides to mercury from coal with focus on the challenge for Asia - Minamata COP3 side event

At the third meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention, the UNEP Global Mercury Partnership Area on Mercury releases from coal combustion organized a side event entitled: “Quick guides to mercury from coal with focus on the challenge for Asia” (26 November 2019, Geneva).

Through this event, moderated by the co-leads of the Partnership Area, Lesley Sloss (International Energy Agency - Clean Coal Centre) and Peter Nelson (Macquarie University – Australia), presenters offered a snapshot on the situation of mercury from coal burning, providing knowledge and science on mercury monitoring, control measures and abatement technologies.

Pictures from the event are available here.

Presentations:

Mercury from coal plants: focus on Asia - Lesley Sloss (International Energy Agency - Clean Coal Centre)

​A quick guide to opportunities for co-benefits from plant optimization and existing pollutants control measures - Carlos Romero (Lehigh University, USA)

​A quick guide on how to monitor mercury emissions from coal burning at increasingly low concentrations - Joseph Siperstein (Ohio Lumex, USA)

​A few quick examples of mercury control projects - Roger Brandwood (Uniper, UK)