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First Session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to Prepare a Global Legally Binding Instrument on Mercury (INC1)
7-11 June 2010 | Stockholm, Sweden
Highlights for Sunday, 6 June 2010
The UNEP Chemicals team during the opening of the technical briefing, L-R: Brenda Koekkoek, Per Bakken, and David Piper.
TECHNICAL BRIEFING
On Sunday morning, participants gathered for a technical briefing and heard presentations on: mercury in products and processes; mercury storage and waste; mercury and mining; and the Paragraph 29 Study and mercury emissions from coal.
Please return to this page on Monday, 7 June for coverage of INC1.
Delegates during the half-day session.
Mercury in products and processes
Carolyn Vickers, World Health Organization
Brenda Koekkoek, UNEP Chemicals
Y.R. Sing, Alkali Manufacturers' Association of India
Mercury storage and waste
Desiree Narvaez, UNEP Chemicals
Sven Hagemann, Gesellschaft fur Anlagen-und Reaktorsicherheit mbH
John Holmes, Integrating Knowledge to Inform Mercury Policy
Ibrahim Shafii, Basel Convention Secretariat
Mercury and mining
Susan Keane, Natural Resources Defense Council
Benjamin Davies, International Council on Mining & Metals
Ludovic Bernaudat, UN Industrial Development Organization
Paragraph 29 Study and mercury emissions from coal
Gunnar Futsaeter, UNEP
Gregory Scott, South African Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism
Lesley Sloss, IEA Clean Coal Center
John Munthe, Swedish Environment Research Institute
Scenes from the first day
Delegates registering for the conference.
Miscelleneous
Participants during the Stockholm Marathon held on Saturday, 5 June 2010.
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First Session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to Prepare a Global Legally Binding Instrument on Mercury (INC1) 
