Events

The governments of Peru and the United States partnered to host a South American Forum on National Action Plans to Reduce Mercury from ASGM. The workshop provided space for officials from Peru, Colombia, Brazil and Ecuador to share experiences and best practices, as each country seeks to develop national action plans to reduce mercury use in the small-scale mining sector.

The meeting was held in United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), back to back with the sixth meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to prepare a legally binding instrument on mercury

PAG6 Meeting Report

Relevant meeting report and other useful documents from the workshop:

Relevant meeting documents and presentations: 

Agenda  

English     Spanish 

Final meeting report

The project results workshop took place on 5-6 November 2013 in Dar es salaam, Tanzania.

Presentations  (available upon request)

Phasing Down Dental Amalgam: Country Case Studies Michael T. Bender - Zero Mercury Working Group

Relevant meeting documents and presentations: 

Agenda

English    

Français    

The 11th International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant (ICMGP 2013) was held in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK from 28 July to 2 August 2013.

Relevant meeting documents:

PAG5 Meeting Report

Meeting Documents

PAG.5.1 Provisional Agenda

PAG.5.2 Annotated Agenda

Meeting documents:

The concept note and draft agenda English / Spanish

The United Nations Environment Programme and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) Cement Sustainability Initiative (CSI) organized the launch of the new work area of the UNEP Global Mercury Partnership to address mercury releases from the cement industry. The launch event was held from 18-19 June 2013 in the International Environment House II, Geneva, Switzerland.

Purpose of the meeting