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On Thursday, Chair Lugris announced that negotiations in contact groups should be concluded by the end of the day, to allow finalization of the text of the instrument on Friday. INC5 delegates met in plenary in the morning, late afternoon and night, to hear reports from contact and other small groups and remarks from Naoko Ishii, GEF CEO and Chairperson. Contact groups met throughout the day on: selected technical articles; finance; emissions and releases; health aspects and implementation plans; and articles of a legal nature.
L-R: Contact Group on Selected Technical Articles Co-Chair Donald Hannah, New Zealand, in a discussion with delegates from India.
Plenary
Sculpture "Pez-Peste" by Nicholas Garcia Uriburu, Argentina, was presented to the INC as a reminder of the irreversible consequences of mercury contamination and pollution.
Vilma Morales, Peru
Jimena Nieto, Colombia
Jeffie Kaine, Australia
Delegates from the US and EU in discussion with Contact Group on Finance, Technical Assistance and Technology Transfer Co-Chair Gillian Guthrie, Jamaica
Diogo Coelho, Brazil
Ajay Tyagi, India
Hadi Farajuand, Iran
L-R: Kaj Madsen, Sylvie Lemmet, and Desiree Narvaez, UNEP
INC5 plenary session
Naoko Ishii, GEF CEO and Chairperson
Achim Steiner, UNEP Executive Director
INC Chair Fernando Lugris, Uruguay, with "Pez-Peste".
L-R: Dais during the afternoon plenary with Naoko Ishii, GEF CEO and Chairperson; Achim Steiner, UNEP Executive Director; Tim Kasten, UNEP; INC Chair Fernando Lugris, Uruguay; Jacob Duer, INC Team Coordinator, UNEP; Masa Nagai, UNEP; and Nina Cromnier, Rapporteur, Sweden
Jeffrey Headley, Barbados
Malverne Spencer, Antigua and Barbuda
Dwayne Curtis, Bahamas
L-R: Maria Luisa Escorel, Brazil, in a discussion with Marie Alice Limage, Haiti
L-R: David Sproule, Canada, in a conversation with Satoru Iino, Japan
L-R: Co-Chair Abiola Olanipekun, Nigeria and David Piper, UNEP
Contact group session on selected technical articles
Contact Group on Health Aspects and Implementation Plans
Co-Chairs Katerina Sebkova, Czech Republic, and Luis Espinosa, Ecuador
Contact group session on health aspects and implementation plans
Contact Group on Emissions and Releases
L-R: Stephanie Laruelle, UNEP; Sheila Logan, UNEP; and Contact Group Co-Chair Abdulkadir Jailani, Indonesia
Contact group session on emissions and releases
INC5 Snapshots
L-R: Nuala Bannon, EU, in conversation with Felipe Ferreira, Brazil
L-R: Delegates from Latin America and the Caribbean with Vilma Morales, Peru, Mirtha Almada, Paraguay, Elsa Ferreras, Dominican Republic, and Maria Inés Esquivel, Panama
Delegates from Algeria consulting
L-R: Frederic Gallo, UNEP Mediterranean Action Plan, consulting with Ana Garcia, Spain
L-R: UNEP's Mercury Partnership leaders with Ana Garcia, Spain; Manuel Ramos, Spain; Karissa Kover, US; Marianne Bailey, US; Lesley Sloss, International Energy Agency - Clean Coal Center; Susan Keane, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC); Ken Davis, US; and Ludovic Bernaudat, UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
Flags outside the CICG
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Fifth Session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to Prepare a Global Legally Binding Instrument on Mercury (INC5)
