EUROPEAN UNION BACKS GEF AS FINANCIAL MECHANISM FOR FUTURE GLOBAL MERCURY CONVENTION
June 1st, 2012
BY CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS
European Union (EU) environment ministers meeting yesterday (June 11) in Luxembourg agreed they wanted the UN's Global Environment Facility (GEF) to finance a future binding global mercury control treaty to be established by the end of 2013. The announcement comes as ministers finalised the EU position on oncoming mercury control negotiations ahead of a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) June 27-July 2 meeting in Uruguay.
"This means financial resources will be made available ...
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