{"id":7414,"date":"2023-09-07T10:36:06","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T04:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/?p=7414"},"modified":"2023-09-07T10:36:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T04:36:06","slug":"asia-pacific-regional-preparatory-meeting-for-the-5th-meeting-of-the-cop-to-the-minamata-convention-on-mercury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/asia-pacific-regional-preparatory-meeting-for-the-5th-meeting-of-the-cop-to-the-minamata-convention-on-mercury\/","title":{"rendered":"Asia Pacific Regional Preparatory Meeting for the 5th Meeting of the COP to the Minamata Convention on Mercury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Bangkok, Thailand, the Science Policy Panel OEWG Asia Pacific Regional Meeting is now taking place both in person and online. The gathering will take place immediately after the Minamata Asia-Pacific regional gathering, which will take place there on September 5 and 6, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Siddika Sultana, Executive Director of ESDO, is currently representing ESDO at this meeting.<\/p>\n<p>In her statement, she supported the decision to set a mercury threshold, which should be as low as possible with a maximum of 10 ppm, as opposed to a 25 mg\/kg threshold that would allow vast quantities of mercury-contaminated waste to be emitted. She agreed with the experts, supporting a threshold between 1 and 10 mg\/kg total mercury content. Korea, Switzerland, Canada, and Uganda has used a threshold of around 1-2 ppm for a long period of time. Indonesia has already set the threshold to be 0.3\u201310 ppm for different wastes and a dumping limit of 0.05 ppm. ESDO firmly believes that a review process should be kept open to consider the revision of these thresholds at COP7.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/esdo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Statement-for-Threshold.docx\">Read the full statement<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Bangkok, Thailand, the Science Policy Panel OEWG Asia Pacific Regional Meeting is now taking place both in person and online. The gathering will take place immediately after the Minamata Asia-Pacific regional gathering, which will take place there on September 5 and 6, 2023. Siddika Sultana, Executive Director of ESDO, is currently representing ESDO at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,21,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-event","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7414","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7416,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7414\/revisions\/7416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}