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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 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 Mercury releases from Coal Combustion Area of the UNEP Global Mercury Partnership held its annual meeting on Monday 16 January 2023, in an online setting.

The Global Mercury Partnership organised an information sharing session on Minamata Initial Assessments (MIAs): latest trends, key findings and data analysis tools, on Tuesday 27 September 2022, from 2:00pm to 3:30pm CEST, in an online setting.

The Global Mercury Partnership Area on Mercury Releases from Coal Combustion, the Secretariat of the Minamata Convention and the International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant co-organized a webinar on “Mercury emissions from coal” as part of Minamata Online Sessions Season 2, on Wednesday 17 November 2021.

The Mercury releases from Coal Combustion Area of the UNEP Global Mercury Partnership held its annual meeting on Tuesday 28 September 2021, in an online setting.

At the third meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention, the UNEP Global Mercury Partnership Area on Mercury releases from coal combustion organized a side event entitled: “Quick guides to mercury from coal with focus on the challenge for Asia” (26 November 2019, Geneva).

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/