{"id":106396,"date":"2022-03-07T17:00:46","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T16:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/?p=106396"},"modified":"2022-03-08T17:21:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T16:21:47","slug":"eliminating-mercury-in-lighting-8-march-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/fr\/eliminating-mercury-in-lighting-8-march-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-COP4.2 Side Event: Eliminating Mercury in Lighting &#8211; A win-win for Health and the Environment &#8211; 8 March &#8211; Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"branding_header_txt\" style=\"text-align: center;\" title=\"Pre-COP4.2 Side Event: Eliminating mercury in lighting - A win-win for health and the environment\">Pre-COP4.2 Side Event: Eliminating Mercury in Lighting<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">A win-win for Health and the Environment<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Tuesday 8 March, 15:30 &#8211; 16:30 CET<\/h4>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/unep.webex.com\/unep\/j.php?RGID=r9c113ec1567fdf835ea89947761bf45f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Please Register Here<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>The EEB, together with CLASP, Clean Lighting Coalition, Swedish Energy Agency, Mercury Policy Project and Toxics Links, are pleased to invite you to a pre-COP4.2 Side Event on Eliminating Mercury in Lighting: A Win-Win for Health and the Environment, as part of the Minamata Convention on Mercury.<\/p>\n<p>Accelerating the transition from fluorescent lighting to LED technology achieves the quintessential win-win, removing toxic mercury from our offices\/homes\/environment while cost-effectively avoiding millions of tonnes of CO2 emissions. A panel of experts will summarize findings of a health-related study, evaluating exposure risk to mercury from lighting, provide an overview of the policies that enabled the EU to move to a mercury-free lighting market, and present new market data showing the feasibility to transition to mercury-free lighting in Africa, Latin America and Asia.<\/p>\n<p>List of speakers:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Michael Bender, Director of Mercury Policy Project<br \/>\n\u2022 Peter Maxson, Expert to UNEP on mercury issues, Director, Concorde East \/ West Sprl<br \/>\n\u2022 Dr. Peter Bennich, Senior Policy Expert, Swedish Energy Agency<br \/>\n\u2022 Michael Scholand, Senior Policy Advisor, CLASP Europe<br \/>\n\u2022 Ana Maria Carre\u00f1o, Deputy Director, Clean Lighting Coalition<br \/>\n\u2022 Rachel Kamande, Regional Lead for Africa and the Middle East, Clean Lighting Coalition<br \/>\n\u2022 Satish Sinha, Associate Director, Toxics Link<br \/>\n\u2022 Elena Lymberidi, Policy Manager Zero Mercury Campaign, International coordinator Zero Mercury Working Group<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pre-COP4.2 Side Event: Eliminating Mercury in Lighting A win-win for Health and the Environment Tuesday 8 March, 15:30 &#8211; 16:30 CET Please Register Here The EEB,<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":106397,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[193],"tags":[196],"class_list":["post-106396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-past-event","tag-events"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Untitled-design-1.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}