The Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury, in its decision MC-3/10 on the arrangements for the first effectiveness evaluation of the Convention, requested the need to advance work in drafting a report on trade, supply and demand, including information on mercury waste flows and stocks.
This annexed report released by SAICM aims to provide a thorough review of the status of illegal trade in chemicals, regulatory frameworks in trade of chemicals, with a particular focus on mercury and pesticides.
The EIA investigates into one of the largest reported seizures of mercury exposing multiple countries in violation of national laws and the Minamata Convention on Mercury.
Massaki Fuse, Hiroumu Oda, Hiroki Noguchi, and Kenichi Nakajima
English
This study aims to detect the existence of illegal intercountry mercury trade under the social mercury phase-out movement, focusing on discrepancies in each country’s trade statistics.
Yingchao Cheng , Kenichi Nakajima, Keisuke Nansai, Jacopo Seccatore, Marcello M. Veiga, Masaki Takao
English
This study discusses a method to detect inconsistencies in data on global mercury trade, and calculated the gap between the demand and supply of mercury to the artisanal and small-scale gold mining sector (i.e., the largest source of Hg emissions globally) in 39 countries across four regions.
International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN)
English
This brief discusses the need to amend the Minamata Convention to end the mercury trade and establish a 2032 phase-out for ASGM as an allowable use of mercury.
La geología prospectiva y la presencia de oro en la provincia de Ñuflo de Chávez ofrecen oportunidades para el desarrollo de negocios prósperos. Sin embargo, dado que la minería puede causar graves impactos negativos, si no se realiza correctamente, es crucial trabajar de una manera responsable. La minería responsable es una forma de producir minerales minimizando los impactos ambientales, protegiendo la salud de las personas y generando beneficios comunes para las y los actores mineros, instituciones y las comunidades.
La minería se realiza en un ciclo, comenzando con la exploración y, si esta etapa tiene éxito, se desarrollan operaciones de extracción y procesamiento que, a su vez, algún día deberán cerrarse y rehabilitarse. Cada etapa de este ciclo se rige por requisitos legales específicos.
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