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Check out this infographic to learn more about how toxic mercury impacts biodiversity and human health all around the world.

From human-made sources, this highly hazardous chemical accumulates in many ecosystems, such as tropical forests, mangroves, oceans and the Arctic, leading to detrimental impacts on biodiversity.

The publication explores "opportunities for generating co-benefits through coherent implementation of the Minamata Convention and Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework".

The objective of this report is to analyse, in response to decision MC-4/12, how the implementation of the Minamata Convention can contribute to the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) and to identify opportunities for coherent and mutually supportive implementation to generate co-benefits for the GBF and the Minamata Convention.

India has set challenging new emission limits for sources such as coal-fired power plants. For this legislation to be effective, the sector must be able to monitor emissions accurately to ensure that any preventative measures or reduction strategies will be effective and can be verified.

The Partnership Areas of work on Mercury cell Chlor-alkali Production and Mercury Waste Management hosted a joint webinar on the sound management and elimination of mercury and mercury waste in the chlor-alkali sector, on 16 February 2023.

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.

The webinar presented initial analysis of aggregated data from 74 MIA mercury inventories and explored patterns and trends in the data.

Minamata online is an initiative from the Secretariat of the Minamata Convention.

This information sheet provides an overview of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Global Mercury Partnership for prospective partners.

The Minamata Convention on Mercury is a global treaty to protect human health and the environment from the adverse effects of mercury.

The Convention was adopted on 10 October 2013 at Kumamoto (Japan) on the occasion of the Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Minamata Convention on Mercury held from 7 to 11 October 2013 and entered into force on 16 August 2017. 

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UN Environment's Toolkit for identification and quantification of mercury releases is intended to assist countries to identify and quantify the sources of mercury releases. With the Toolkit, a comprehensive national mercury releases inventory can be developed.

Presentation given by Lesley Sloss during the Global Mercury Partnership's side event during the Second Conference of Parties (COP 2) of the Minamata Convention.

This study aims to conduct an inventory of mercury emissions from selected coal-fired power plants in Thailand.

This report presents national information on coal types and coal usage, characterizes the coal-fired power sector in Indonesia and develops an emission inventory for the coal fired energy sector as well as presents other relevant information to improve accuracy of future emission inventories.

UN Environment Chemicals and Health Branch is developing and populating a databank on chemicals analyses, in particular on persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and mercury (Hg).

This draft report was produced as a discussion piece for the Workshop on Efficiency and Emissions, Mpumalanga, South Africa, 28th February 2017, with support from the US Department of State

This draft report was produced as a discussion piece for the Workshop on Efficiency and Emissions, Mpumalanga, South Africa, 28th February 2017, with support from the US Department of State

This document describes the procedure for the determination of vapor phase mercury mass concentration in stack gas using carbon traps based on US EPA Method 30B.

The world’s nations adopted the Minamata Convention on Mercury to protect human health and the environment from mercury pollution. A good understanding of mercury supply, trade and demand is critical to effective implementation of the Convention.

This report describes project activities, including measuring mercury content in coals burned in Vietnam, measuring mercury content of flue gas, and developing mercury emissions factors for the coal-fired power sector

This document summarizes the main influences on efficiency and means available to increase it, with suggestions for future actions

This report details the current emissions from coal combustion in India and the emergence of new policies and options for emissions reduction.

The report describes the two conventions and their approaches and compares them with regard to control of mercury emissions from the coal combustion sector.

The report characterizes the coal-fired power sector in India, and includes a description of coal consumption, coal quality, results from coal analysis, pollutants controls in the sector, and an inventory of mercury emissions from the sector.

The report presents results of a collaborative demonstration of mercury air emission reduction at the 8 MW pilot plant located at coal-fired Cherepetskaya Thermal Power Plant in Russia. The pilot plant was equipped with an activated carbon (AC) injection system and an electrostatic precipitator (ESP).