UNEP Global Mercury Partnership: Partnership Area Business Plans - Note by the Secretariat 2009

UNEP Governing Council Decision 24/3 called for business plans to be developed under the UNEP Global Mercury Partnership. The Overarching Framework of the UNEP Global Mercury Partnership sets out a business plan template to provide guidance to the partnership areas in developing the business plans. The annex to the present note includes the business plans for the six existing partnership areas: mercury releases from coal combustion; mercury cell chlor alkali production; mercury in products; mercury transport and fate research; mercury in artisanal and small-scale gold mining; and mercury waste management. Also annexed to the present note is a list of current partnership area members.