《100705_ZMWGlettertojoinUNEPHgPartnership-final》.pdf

Mr. Per Bakken, Head, UNEP Chemicals Branch, DTIE 11-13, chemin des Anémones CH-1219 Châtelaine - Geneva, Switzerland Fax: (+41 22) 797 3460 E-mail: mercury@chemicals.unep.ch Elena Lymberidi-Settimo Zero Mercury Working Group (European Environmental Bureau) 34, Boulevard de Waterloo, B-1000 , Brussels Belgium Michael Bender Zero Mercury Working Group (Mercury Policy Project) 1420 North St. Montpelier, VT USA 05602 July 5th , 2010 Subject: Zero Mercury Working Group’s interest to join the UNEP Mercury Partnerships Dear Mr. Per Bakken, With this letter, the Zero Mercury Working Group (ZMWG) expresses its interest to officially join and become a member of the 6 UNEP mercury partnership areas, including: artisanal and small scale gold mining (ASGM), chlor-alkali, coal combustion, fate and transport, products, and waste. The ZMWG supports the overall goal of the UNEP Global Mercury Partnership to protect human health and the global environment from the release of mercury and its compounds by minimizing and, where feasible, ultimately eliminating global, anthropogenic mercury releases to air, water and land. The ZMWG is an international coalition of more than 80 public interest environmental and health non-governmental organizations from over 45 countries from around the world formed in 2005 by the European Environmental Bureau and the Mercury Policy