Events

The Partnership Areas on Mercury cell Chlor-alkali Production and Mercury Waste Management hosted a joint webinar on the sound management and elimination of mercury and mercury waste in the chlor-alkali sector on 16 February 2023.

Minamata Online sessions on 5 October 2022. Waste management is a good example of synergies between international treaties. Parties to the Minamata Convention are to use the technical guidelines under the Basel Convention for the environmentally sound management of mercury waste. The guidelines were published in 2015 and updated at Basel Convention COP in June 2022.

The Global Mercury Partnership organised an information sharing session on Minamata Initial Assessments (MIAs): latest trends, key findings and data analysis tools, on Tuesday 27 September 2022, from 2:00pm to 3:30pm CEST, in an online setting.

The Mercury waste management Area of the UNEP Global Mercury Partnership took place both in-person and in an online setting, on 20 September 2022 at 9:30-12:30 (Singapore time).

The main objective of the meeting was to discuss on the Workplans and consider synergies among Working Groups and cooperation with the Global Mercury Partnership Areas.  

The UNEP Global Mercury Partnership, its Areas of work on Mercury Waste Management and on Mercury Supply and Storage as well as the Secretariat of the Minamata Convention jointly organized a side event on "Mercury Wastes: latest developments, tools and practices for their environmentally sound management" in the margins of the 2022 meetings of the Co

The UNEP Global Mercury Partnership and its areas of work on Mercury in Products and on Mercury Waste Management jointly organized on Tuesday 7 December 2021 an online information-sharing session dedicated to the phase out of  mercury-containing lamps.

The Mercury waste management Area of the UNEP Global Mercury Partnership met on Thursday 8 July 2021.

Amongst others, the meeting discussed the Partnership Area Activity Plan for the period 2021 – 2023 and the way forward to conduct planned activities. It was also an opportunity to exchange on the development of fact sheets for the environmentally sound management of mercury waste, as well as the development of a list of treatment facilities.

The Mercury waste management Area of the UNEP Global Mercury Partnership held its annual meeting on Monday 8 March 2021 in an online setting.

The meeting discussed the needs for mercury waste management technologies and services identified in a recently conducted online survey, and explored opportunities for future work. The meeting also considered the Partnership area's activity plan.

The Mercury waste management Area of the UNEP Global Mercury Partnership held its annual meeting on 27 November 2020.

The Global Mercury Partnership participated in the webinar on Mercury material flow – waste, organized on 15 October 2020 as part of the Minamata online initiative from the Secretariat of the Minamata Convention.

Second event under the “mercury science” stream, this webinar shared available resources on mercury material flow with a focus on waste stream. Presentations were followed by a panel discussion on how to improve the knowledge on mercury material flow in waste stream.

The event featured presentations by the following speakers: