Events

The Mercury supply and storage Area of the UNEP Global Mercury Partnership held its annual meeting on Thursday 25 February 2021, in an online setting.

The meeting was first provided with an update by the Secretariat of the Partnership on ongoing and future planned activities, as well as by the Secretariat of the Minamata Convention on issues related to mercury supply sources and storage under the Convention.

The eleventh meeting of the UNEP Global Mercury Partnership Advisory Group (PAG11) was held on 15 and 16 December 2020 in a virtual setting, under the leadership of  the PAG co-chairs, Rodges Ankrah (Environmental Protection Agency, U.S.), and Teeraporn Wiriwutikorn (Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Thailand).

Meeting Documents

The Mercury air transport and fate research Area of the UNEP Global Mercury Partnership held its annual meeting on Thursday 10 December 2020.

Meeting Agenda

The UNEP Global Mercury Partnership and its Area of work on Mercury in Products, in cooperation with the World Health Organization, organized on 30 November 2020 a webinar to focus on the issue of mercury in skin lightening products. The event looked into the adverse effects of these products, shared information, and discussed some of the practices, experiences as well as challenges faced by countries and other stakeholders in meeting the 2020 deadline for phase out under the Minamata Convention.

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

The Global Mercury Partnership, Mercury Air Transport and Fate Partnership Area, and the Secretariat of the Minamata Convention, together with the International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant and the Geneva Environment Network co-organized a webinar on “Multimedia modelling of global mercury movement” as part of Minamata Online Sessions.

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:

The Global Mercury Partnership and its Area of work on mercury in products organized, in cooperation with World Health Organization (WHO), on 13 October 2020 a webinar on mercury-containing medical devices. 

Moderated by the Global Mercury Partnership Secretariat, this webinar had the following objectives:

Minamata online is an initiative from the Secretariat of the Minamata Convention.

On 29 September 2020, Minamata Online held an information session on “Mercury material flow: Supply, demand and trade”.

Webinar for the Spanish speaking countries in Latin America and Caribbean region.

The webinar presented the global status and progress made on NAP development and reviewed the available tools and assistance from the UNEP Global Mercury Partnership and others. Honduras and Ecuador shared the challenges that national teams have encountered during NAP development process or related projects (e.g. planetGOLD). Finally, participants shared their experiences and discussed possible solutions, including with respect to the future NAP implementation and sector transformation.