Events

The Asia-Pacific Mercury Storage Project Execom Meeting took place in Surabaya, Indonesia from 29 - 30 July, 2011. The objectives were to provide governments and stakeholders a clear set of findings and recommendations that will help form a basis for a decision on a safe mercury storage option from the final draft options analysis study and to identify the next steps.

Meeting documents:

The 10th International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant (ICMGP 2011) was held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada from 24 to 29 July 2011. Conference website

An inception workshop took place in Montevideo, Uruguay in June 2011.

Concept note and agenda

Regional multi-stakeholder workshop: Anglophone West Africa sub-regional action planning on mercury use in artisanal and small scale gold mining, from 8-10 June 2011 in Nigeria.

Purpose of the meeting

To enhance regional collaboration and coordination through exchange of experiences and lessons learned on a regional level To raise the awareness of governments and stakeholders To build momentum for regional and national action plan

The two focus countries with developed national strategies have highlighted their experiences and a regional action plan with recommendations has been prepared as an outcome of the meeting. The conclusion meeting will continue to strengthen regional collaboration and capacity by inviting representatives from all ASGM countries in the region.

Agenda

UNEP and its partners in the Global Mercury Partnership convened a global forum on artisanal and small scale gold mining (ASGM) to discuss and formulate pragmatic options for policy and decision makers to consider for the development of the UNEP mercury treaty.

Agenda

UNEP Global Mercury Partnership Workshop on Approaches to Reduce the Use of Mercury in Artisanal and Small Scale Gold Mining

15 October 2010 - Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

The Social and Financial Challenges of Artisanal and Small Scale Gold Mining meeting was organized for the international community and stakeholders to highlight changing global policies on mercury in light of the future global mercury treaty. Participants were invited to consider their possible role in developing and supporting an effective global solution in the artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) sector.

Meeting Report

This consultation meeting was organized to bring together key country representatives and stakeholders of the completed and ongoing projects on mercury waste and storage to analyze gaps and overlaps.  The meeting also agreed on three pilot projects to demonstrate or generate useful guidance.

Meeting report

Meeting documents

The second meeting of the Partnership Advisory Group was held in Geneva, Switzerland, from 21-22 September 2010

PAG2 Meeting Report Memo for participants 

A number of related side meetings took place throughout the week: