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 tool place online on Monday 15 June 2026..

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.

Within the framework of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) project on dental amalgam, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) organised a regional workshop in Montevideo on March 4 and 5, 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.

Ahead of the Sixth Conference of the Parties (COP6) of the Minamata Convention, the Global Mercury Partnership, its areas of work on mercury in products and waste management together with the World Health Organization are organising an online side-event scheduled on Tuesday 14 October 2025 11:00 to 12:00 CEST.

The webinar Regional Experience in Implementing the Minamata Convention: Progress Towards Reducing or Eliminating Dental Amalgam and Responsibly Managing Its Waste took place online with simultaneous interpretation in Spanish, English and Portuguese,  on 1 October 2025.