Environmentally sound management and disposal of excess mercury and mercury waste from removing mercury electrolytic cells in Brazil’s chlor-alkali sector (Chlor-alkali Brazil)

To reduce negative environmental and social impacts caused by mercury and mercury wastes from the chlor-alkali sector and other stocks of obsolete metallic mercury in Brazil.
Financial mechanism
GEF
Date of approval
Status
Project approved
URL
https://www.thegef.org/projects-operations/projects/11697
Countries
Brazil
Implementing organisations
UNEP
Project ID
11697
GEF project type
Full size
GEF project phase
GEF - 8
GEF Cofinancing
$274.106.856
GEF project grant
$12.000.000
Executing Agencies
Fundação Educacional Ciência e Desenvolvimento (FECD)