13:15-14:45 Shunichi Honda (United Nations Environment Programme)

Governmental Seminar

 

Speaker: Shunichi Honda  (Program Officer, International Environmental Technology Centre, United Nations Environment Programme)

Title: Seminar on the Minamata Convention on Mercury: Global Mercury Waste Management

 

 

Date&Time: 10 Sep. (Tue.) 2019, 13:15-14:45

Venue: Miyamoto Memorial Hall, Oe campus, Kumamoto University

 

Abstract:

The Minamata Convention on Mercury aims at international life cycle management of mercury. In the convention provisions, Mercury Waste is set as a last stronghold to protect the human health and the environment from anthropogenic emissions and releases of mercury and mercury compounds as the convention objective. The seminar will focus on determining and analysing the current situation and problems on mercury waste management at global level. Furthermore, the seminar will also consider about how waste management should be implemented in terms of the Sustainable Development Goals 2030 (SDGs).

 

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