📋 Tender Overview
The Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) leads articulation to enable partnership between Brazil and the United Nations Program for the Environment (UNEP), focusing on small -scale gold mining. The first meeting to deal with the subject took place on Thursday (3/07) and was attended by representatives of MME, the Ministry of Environment (MMA), the National Mining Agency (ANM) and the Gold Sem Mercury Project.
The initiative aims to promote more secure and sustainable practices in the sector, align with the countrys commitments at the Minamata Convention on Mercury, which aims to protect health and the environment. The UNEP is already a partner of Brazil in the Gold Without Mercury Project and promotes in 40 countries the Planetgold Program, focused on strengthening and improving practices in handcrafted and small scale mining. This model has four pillars: access to financing, incentive to Mercury Free Market, dissemination of technologies and knowledge exchange.
This project can inaugurate a new moment for small -scale mining in Brazil with the ability to robustly innovate the sector, either by the UNEP experience with other countries or because of the ability to attract financial actors, said Mining Secretary, Geology and Mineral Transformation, Anderson Arruda.
With the support of UNEP, Brazil intends to access resources from the Global Fund for the Environment (GEF) to enable actions that encourage a more responsible gold mining, contributing to the sustainable development and strengthening of the mineral sector.
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