Events

The 17th International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant (ICMGP) will take place in Hyberabad, India, from 4 to 9 October 2026.

This year theme is "Reaching Ten Years of Enforcement of the Minamata Convention: Achievements, Challenges and Road Map for the Future".

The sixth meeting of the Eliminating Mercury Skin Lightening Products project stakeholders group will place online on Monday 15 June, from 2:30 to 3:30 pm CET.

The side event will take place on Friday 5 June 2026, from 13h30 to 14h30 in the Zircon room as part of the Eigth Global Environment Facility (GEF) Assembly in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.

Theme: Leaving No One Behind: Civil Society, Women, and Indigenous Peoples

The fifth meeting of the Eliminating Mercury Skin Lightening Products project stakeholders group took place online on Thursday 26 March 2026.

Panel discussion and film screening special event of the Sixth Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury

This event was organized by the International Geneva Global Health Platform, Global Health Centre, Geneva Graduate Institute, and co-hosted by the United Nations Environment Programme; Global Mercury Partnership; World Health Organization; Biodiversity Research Institute; and the Global Environment Facility.

As part of the Sixth Conference of the Parties (COP6) of the Minamata Convention, the Global Mercury Partnership together with the World Health Organization, the Biodiversity Research Institute and Zero Mercury Group, are organised an event on Wednesday 5 November at the Centre International de Conferences, Geneva, Switzerland.

In the margins of Minamata COP-6 a powerful photographic exhibition is on display on the lakeshore of Geneva, from 27 October to 16 November 2025.

The fourth meeting of the Eliminating Mercury Skin Lightening Products project stakeholders group took place online on Thursday 18 September 2025.

The GEF-funded, UNEP-led project “Eliminating Mercury Skin Lightening Products” is being implemented in collaboration with the Governments of Gabon, Jamaica, and Sri Lanka, with support from the World Health Organization and the Biodiversity Research Institute. The project aims to address the serious health and environmental risks posed by mercury-added skin lightening products.

The Global Mercury Partnership, its areas of work on mercury in products and waste management proposed a 90 minutes’ side event on the management of waste from mercury containing products held during the 2025 BRS COPs.