{"id":2004,"date":"2017-09-25T16:53:03","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T10:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esdo.org\/?p=2004"},"modified":"2017-09-25T16:53:03","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T10:53:03","slug":"quick-recap-of-the-cop1-to-the-minamata-convention-on-mercury-24-september-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/quick-recap-of-the-cop1-to-the-minamata-convention-on-mercury-24-september-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Recap of the COP1 to the Minamata Convention on Mercury, 24 September, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first meeting of the conference of the parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury in Geneva, Switzerland is continuing from 24 September- 29 September, 2017. The meeting is being conducted under the theme of \u2018Make Mercury History\u2019. Sunday\u2019s sessions of the meeting comprises of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Regional meetings<\/li>\n<li>Bureau meeting<\/li>\n<li>Showcase events<\/li>\n<li>COP1 opening<\/li>\n<li>COP1 session<\/li>\n<li>Knowledge lab<\/li>\n<li>Contact groups<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The plenary adopted the following documents-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>UNEP\/ MC\/ COP. 1\/5 \u2013 Adopted<\/li>\n<li>UNEP\/ MC\/ COP. 1\/6 \u2013 Adopted \u2013 except for Decision will be taken in the COW<\/li>\n<li>UNEP\/ MC\/ COP. 1\/7 Adotped<\/li>\n<li>UNEP\/ MC\/ COP. 1\/16 \u2013 Adopted<\/li>\n<li>UNEP\/ MC\/ COP. 1\/23 \u2013 Adopted<\/li>\n<li>UNEP\/ MC\/ COP. 1\/15 \u2013 The whole document plus the decision has been moved to the COW.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Regional meetings started at 9 am and GRULAC accepted NGOs for 5 min in the beginning where IPEN made a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Learn More: <a href=\"http:\/\/enb.iisd.org\/mercury\/cop1\/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=2017-09-25%20-%20COP1%20Geneva%20-%20ENB%20-%20English%20-%20Issue2%20SW&amp;utm_content=2017-09-25%20-%20COP1%20Geneva%20-%20ENB%20-%20English%20-%20Issue2%20SW+CID_0cf10e6852f519a460bd9bf4ab9b0354&amp;utm_source=cm&amp;utm_term=httpenbiisdorgmercur\">http:\/\/enb.iisd.org\/mercury\/cop1\/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=2017-09-25%20-%20COP1%20Geneva%20-%20ENB%20-%20English%20-%20Issue2%20SW&amp;utm_content=2017-09-25%20-%20COP1%20Geneva%20-%20ENB%20-%20English%20-%20Issue2%20SW+CID_0cf10e6852f519a460bd9bf4ab9b0354&amp;utm_source=cm&amp;utm_term=httpenbiisdorgmercur<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first meeting of the conference of the parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury in Geneva, Switzerland is continuing from 24 September- 29 September, 2017. The meeting is being conducted under the theme of \u2018Make Mercury History\u2019. Sunday\u2019s sessions of the meeting comprises of: Regional meetings Bureau meeting Showcase events COP1 opening COP1 session [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2006,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004\/revisions\/2006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}