IKIMP Presents at UNEP INC1 Conference 7-11 June 2010
June 10th, 2010
Dr John Holmes presented IKIMP’s ‘Decision Making Framework’ for redundant elemental mercury at the UNEP International Negotiating Committee 1 meeting in Stockholm recently. Currently the member states are meeting in Stockholm to begin the negotiation of a legally binding instrument to limit the global use of mercury.
Dr John Holmes presenting at UNEP INC1 7-11 June 2010. (Photo credit IISD.org)
Dr Holmes presented the IKIMP ‘Decision Making Framework’ in a combined presentation titled A Strategic Framework for Decision Making and Technical Concepts for Storage and Disposal of Elemental Mercury with Sven Hagemann, GRS.
Should you wish to keep up to date with events the IISD website and Chemical Watch are providing coverage of events, but for real-time commentary there is even a twitter feed (#Mercury_INC).
The IISD Reporting Service provides commentary on each days proceedings :
- Monday, 7 June 2010
- Tuesday, 8 June 2010
- Wednesday, 9 June 2010
- Thursday, 10 June 2010
- Friday, 11 June 2010
The INC1 Meeting documents are available on the UNEP Mercury website.
See an interview with Andreas Carlgren, Minister for the Environment in Sweden, at UNEP’s INC1 Conference.
