Events

The tenth meeting of the Global Mercury Partnership Advisory Group took place on Saturday, 23 November 2019 in Geneva, Switzerland, back to back with the third meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention and its preceding preparatory meetings, held from 24 to 29 November 2019.

Meeting Documents

The annual meeting of the UN Environment Global Mercury Partnership – Mercury Control from Coal Combustion, was held on 30 October 2019 in Hanoi, Vietnam, back to back with the 14th Multi-pollutant Emissions from Coal (MEC 14) workshop https://www.mec-workshops.org/

The Mercury Waste Management Area of the UNEP Global Mercury Partnership held a members meeting on 6 October 2019 in Bilbao, Spain, back to back with the 2019 ISWA Congress. 

The 14th International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant (ICMGP 2019) was held in Krakow, Poland from 8 to 13 September 2019 under the theme: "Bridging knowledge on global mercury with environmental responsibility, human welfare and policy response".

The Global Opportunities for Long-term Development in Artisanal and Small Scale Mining Programme (GEF GOLD) held its implementation launch on 18-19 February 2019 at the Goldsmiths' Centre in London. 

This lunch time side event took place during the Second Conference of Parties of the Minamata Convention.

The ninth meeting of the Global Mercury Partnership Advisory Group took place on Sunday, 18 November 2018 in Geneva, Switzerland.

Meeting Documents

Meeting report

PAG 9.1 - Provisional Agenda

The Waste Management Area Partnership Area (WMA) of the Global Mercury Partnership held a members meeting on 10th September 2018 in Vienna, Austria. The objective of the meeting was to:

1.     To review and evaluate each activity implemented under the WMA and identify achievements and challenges.

2.      To discuss ways forward for the Partnership and WMA and to develop a concrete action plan.

The Annual Meeting of the Coal Combustion Partnership Area has taken place on the final day of  the 13th Multi-pollutant Emissions from Coal (MEC 13) workshop which was held in Krakow, Poland.

The meeting was the occasion to present an update of the continuing activities underway on the Coal Partnership Area. It included an update on the now completed projects in Southeast Asia as well as a discussion of proposed further projects in Asia, South America, Africa and Europe.

The UN Environment Global Mercury Partnership is undertaking activities to enhance national information exchange, capacity building and knowledge generation to facilitate the development of the UN Environment implemented National Action Plans(NAPs) for Artisanal and Small Scale Gold Mining (ASGM) . This is referred to as the NAP Global Component. As part of these activities, the regional workshop on “Developing a national overview of the Artisanal and Small Scale Gold Mining sector for NAP project” took place for the Asian countries working with UN Environment on their NAPs.