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Asia-Pacific Mercury Storage Project:
An inception workshop took place in Bangkok, Thailand on 4-5 March 2009
that was aimed at initiating a regional process to support the
sequestration of excess mercury in Asia and the Pacific. The workshop
reviewed an expert report that described projected quantities of excess
mercury supply in Asia and the Pacific from 2010-2050. Long term management options for
safe storage were presented, with the discussion around criteria and
issues.
Proceedings of the inception workshop are available
here.
Governments agreed to do an options analysis and feasibility study as
basis for countries’ decision for the preferred option. The final draft
of the annotated outline on the
“Development of Options Analysis and Feasibility Study for the Long term
Storage of Mercury” outlines the
DRAFT report that is available here
(Draft
report in
word and
pdf versions). Basis for the options analysis and feasibility study is
the
“Assessment of Excess Mercury Supply in Asia, 2010-2050”
Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) Mercury Storage Project:
A
similar process is being undertaken for countries in Latin America and
the Caribbean. An inception workshop took place in Montevideo, Uruguay
on 23-24 April where the
"Assessment
Report of Excess of Mercury Supply in Latin American and the Caribbean,
2010-2050" (word
and pdf
versions) was presented and was basis for discussion. Proceedings
of the inception workshop are available
here.
 A
LAC Mercury Storage Project Regional Consultation Meeting will take
place in Panama City, Panama on 14-15 April 2010. Information about the
meeting is available
here.
Information on activities related to mercury storage*
can be consulted as follows:
the United
States of America
and in the
European Union.
Also available are relevant legislation (Mercury Export Bans) in the
US and in
the
EU.
* For easy reference hyperlinks and
documents have been clustered together into one pdf file
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