The meeting of the Implementation and Compliance Committee (ICC) of the Minamata Convention on Mercury took place online on 13 and 14 September 2022.
The secretariat of the Minamata Convention took part in the fourth meeting of the intersessional process considering the Strategic Approach and sound management of chemicals and waste beyond 2020, held in Bucharest from 29 August to 2 September 2022.
Submissions closed. Photographers from all over the world were invited to participate and raise awareness of the ongoing global concern of toxic mercury (deadline: 31 December 2022).
Five years have passed since the Minamata Convention on Mercury entered into force on 16 August 2017. Although the convention itself is young, it builds on a long history of scientific efforts to understand and manage the risk of mercury, a toxic substance.
On 25 July 2022, the Secretariat of the Minamata Convention on Mercury took part in the 15th meeting of the International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant (ICMGP). The meeting is taking place as a week-long virtual event. At the beginning of the day, Dr.
The Secretariat of the Minamata Convention on Mercury took part in the latest meeting of the Open-ended Working Group on the post-2020 global biodiversity framework (GBF) that was held in Nairobi from 21 to 26 June 2022.
At the fourth meeting of the GEF-8 Replenishment on 7-8 April 2022, twenty-nine countries agreed to pledge the record support of $5.25 billion for the Global Environment Facility (GEF), a 29% increase in funding from the
The five-day meeting in Bali agreed on making the evaluation of effectiveness an integral part of the Minamata Convention, extended the phase-out list of mercury-added products, and highlighted the importance of mainstreaming gender within the activities of the Convention.
This panel discussion, organized by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), took place as a lunch time event during the second day of the resumed Minamata COP-4 (13h15-14h45 local time UTC+8).
Within the framework of Minamata COP-4, the CEO and Chairperson of the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) Carlos Manuel Rodriguez will
Under healthy safe measures, the second segment of the fourth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury (COP-4) takes place in person from 21 to 25 March in Bali, Indonesia, with online participation.
The second segment of the fourth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury (COP-4.2) will take place in person in Bali, Indonesia, from 21 to 25 March 2022.