Events

The Mercury supply and storage Partnership Area held it annual meeting on Friday 13 October 2023 in an online setting.

The meeting was the occasion to review recent work, discuss future priorities and designate Lilian Corra as the new co-lead of the Partnership Area-

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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 UNEP Global Mercury Partnership, its Areas of work on Mercury Waste Management and on Mercury Supply and Storage as well as the Secretariat of the Minamata Convention jointly organized a side event on "Mercury Wastes: latest developments, tools and practices for their environmentally sound management" in the margins of the 2022 meetings of the Co

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.

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”.

The joint meeting took place as an online conference call on 3 February 2017 with the objective to share ideas on enhancing collaboration and synergies in order to meet the common Global Mercury Partnership goal and objectives amongst the three partnership areas:

The meeting was organized by the Government of Spain (Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment, MAGRAMA), with the collaboration of the Government of Uruguay (National Environmental Directorate). The meeting was held in Madrid (Spain), 25-26 October 2016, at the MAGRAMA.

Workshop Objectives:

The project’s inception workshop took place on 12-13 August 2015 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.Concept note and draft agendaReport of the inception workshop