Selin Selected to Expert Group on Minamata Convention
Henrik Selin, Associate Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, has been selected by UNEP Chemicals and the Minamata Convention Secretariat to be a member of an expert group for developing a framework for future effectiveness evaluations of the Minamata Convention on Mercury.
Selin was selected as one of the experts representing civil society, and will formally be representing the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University, which is an official observer organization for the Minamata Convention.
“The work of this expert group is important because it will be the first time that the Minamata Convention parties consider the framework and elements of future effectiveness evaluations,” Selin said. “The work of the group will have a major impact on future political decisions as well as the content of the first effectiveness evaluation, which in turn will be critical to efforts to strengthening the Minamata Convention over time.”
The group’s first meeting will be held in Ottawa in early March and will be important in further developing the parameters of the group’s work and in starting substantial discussions. The group will then report back to the next meeting of the conference of the parties in November 2018.
Henrik Selin conducts research and teaches classes on global and regional politics and policy making on environment and sustainable development. His most recent book is EU and Environmental Governance, by Routledge Press, and is also the author of Global Governance of Hazardous Chemicals: Challenges of Multilevel Management by MIT Press.