Bahrain participates in Minamata Convention

New York

The Chief Executive Officer of the Supreme Council for Environment Dr. Mohammed Mubarak bin Daina participated in the high-level meeting held at the UN headquarters on ‘Minamata Convention on Mercury’, a global convention aiming to protect the environment from the adverse effects of mercury.

The objective of the event is to get more countries to deposit their instruments of acceptance, approval, or accession to the
Convention.

The Samoa Prime Minister and Chadian Environment and Fisheries Minister took part in the high-level event co-hosted by Japan, Switzerland, US and Uruguay and moderated by the Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Ibrahim Thiaw.

The convention, negotiated under the United Nations Environment Programme calls for parties to control and reduce mercury emissions, reduce or eliminate the use of mercury in certain products and industrial processes, address the use of mercury in artisanal industry and small-scale gold mining and reduce the supply of mercury by ending primary mercury mining. It was agreed at the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee in Geneva, Switzerland on January 19, 2013.