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Minamata Convention on Mercury

Governments as well as representatives from IGOs and NGOs are gathering to make final preparations for the entry into force of the Minamata Convention on Mercury and the first meeting of its Conference of Parties.


The seventh session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Mercury (INC7) is being from 10-15 March at the Dead Sea in Jordan.


Countries are reviewing progress made and further steps needed for the Convention to enter into force once it has 50 ratifications. Regional consultations to prepare for the negotiations at INC7 meanwhile took place on 9 March.


The global treaty was adopted in Kumamoto, Japan in 2013 with the objective to protect human health and the environment from the adverse effects of mercury - a heavy metal the World Health Organisation considers to be among the top ten chemicals or groups of chemicals of major public concern.


More than 127 governments and the EU have signed up to the Convention and 23 future parties have ratified it. The convention includes a ban on new mercury mines, the phase-out of existing ones, control measures on air emissions and the international regulation of the informal sector for artisanal and small-scale gold mining.


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Building a sustainable financial system

UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner will be among high level panellists exploring what role the EU could play in creating conditions for sustainable finance at an event in Brussels this month.


During the event, titled ‘Building a sustainable financial system – the role of the EU,’ Mr Steiner will present key findings from the UNEP Inquiry on the Design of a Sustainable Financial System.


The Executive Director will also launch a discussion paper placing key outcomes of the Inquiry’s final report in the European context. The paper will feed into the European Commission’s public consultation on long-term and sustainable investment, which aims to assess the state of play in the EU.


The panel will focus on the role of financing in sustainable development in the context of the Commission’s recent proposals for a Circular Economy and for Capital Markets Union.


Frans Timmermans, First Vice President of the European Commission, is among other speakers at the event, which takes place on 22 March at 13.00 – 15.00 in the European Parliament.


The discussion forms part of a series of similar high level panel discussions under the ‘2016 - Year of Green Finance,’ led by UNEP’s Inquiry initiative in close partnership with GLOBE EU and the European Commission.


More information on the event and panellists can be found by clicking here.


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