Events

The Global Mercury Partnership and its Area of work on Mercury in Products, in collaboration with the Clean Lighting Coalition and the Zero Mercury Working Group with the support of the Government of Switzerland organized an online session on the transition to mercury-free lighting scheduled on Thursday 31 August 2023.

An interactive discussion was held online on 19 July following the presentations made at the Partnership Area on Mercury Releases from Coal Combustion Meeting held in Jakarta on Thursday 13 July 2023 in conjunction with the fifteenth International Workshop on Multi-pollutant Emissions from Coal workshop (MEC15) "Strategies for targeted emission reductions from the Indonesian coal fleet: capacity building to accelerate compliance".

The discussion included exchanges on:

The Global Mercury Partnership, in cooperation with its Areas of Work on Mercury Supply and Storage as well as on Mercury Waste Management, organized an online session “Managing mercury along the oil and gas value chains: sharing of experience and best practices” on Tuesday 18 July 2023.

The Partnership Area on Mercury Releases from Coal Combustion held its first face-to-face meeting in over three years on 13 July 2023, in conjunction with the MEC15 International Workshop entitled "Strategies for targeted emission reductions from the Indonesian coal fleet: capacity building to accelerate compliance" held in Jakarta, Indonesia, on 11 and 12 July 2023.

Amongst others, the Partnership Area meeting featured:

The Partnership Area on mercury in Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining organized an information sharing session on 26 June in an online setting. The event presented updates of ongoing U.S Department of State granted mercury related projects in the ASGM sector and provided an opportunity to exchange on potential synergies.

The Partnership Area on Mercury in Products, in collaboration with UNEP United for Efficiency (U4E) and the Clean Lighting Coalition, with the support of Switzerland organized the in-person workshop, on 19-20 June 2023, in Geneva, Switzerland.

Co-organized by the Secretariat of the Minamata Convention on Mercury, Burkina Faso, Switzerland, the Secretariat of BRS Conventions and UNEP Global Mercury Partnership, this event addressed the challenges faced by developing countries in managing and disposing of mercury waste in an environmentally sound manner.

The sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention (BC COP-16), and the eleventh meetings of the Parties respectively to the Rotterdam (RC COP-11) and the Stockholm Conventions (SC COP-11) took place back-to-back from 1 to 12 May 2023, at the Geneva International Conference Centre (CICG) in Geneva, Switzerland.

This year’s COPs theme was “Accelerating action: Targets for the sound management of chemicals and waste”, featuring various side events on joint issue.

In the context of its support for the implementation of the Minamata Convention, the Global Environment Facility (GEF) has approved  the project Accelerate implementation of dental amalgam provisions and strengthen country capacities in the environmental sound management of associated wastes under the Minamata Convention, with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Health Organization (WHO) respectively as implementing and executing agencies, with targeted technical assistance from the UNEP Global Mercury Partnership, and participation of three countr

The Mercury in Products Area of the UNEP Global Mercury Partnership held its annual meeting on Tuesday 25 April 2023 in an online setting.

The meeting was be an opportunity to exchange on latest activities, ongoing projects and upcoming events, including in the context of the Partnership Area. The event also featured the introduction of new co-leads.

Provisional Agenda