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Yuyun Ismawati
IPEN Lead in ASGM
Indonesia Toxics-Free Network, Coordinator
Terimakasih untuk kawan2 yang bulan lalu sudah ikut signed up mendukung the Civil Society Organizations Joint Statement on:Japanese Government Needs to Incorporate the Lessons Learned from Minamata into the Mercury Treaty. Target 500 signatories sudah tercapai, malah lebih dari target, dan setelah deadline masih ada beberapa lagi yang sign up.. :-)
Tuntutan teman2 di Jepang didengar oleh Pemerintahnya dan mereka sudah melakukan pertemuan tgl. 23 January lalu.
Kali ini teman2 di Jepang minta bantuan kita untuk mendukung Mercury Export Ban Act dari Jepang ke negara lain. Informasi detail tentang ini dapat dibaca di link berikut:
Jepang mengekspor merkuri ke Indonesia selama kurun waktu 2006-2011 sbb:
- 2006: 835 kg (0,835 Ton)
- 2007: 2,046 kg (2,046 Ton)
- 2008: 1,719 kg (1,719 Ton)
- 2009: 898 kg (0,898 Ton)
- 2010: 1,203 kg (1,203 Ton)
- 2011: 962 kg (0,962 Ton)
Kalau ditambahkan dengan impor merkuri dari negara2 lain (illegally imported karena pemerintah Indonesia tidak menyampaikan import notification data ke UNCOMTRADE) sebetulnya yang masuk ke Indonesia sekitar 4 - 300 Ton per tahun.
USA dan EU sejak awal 2011 dan 2012 sudah mulai menerapkan export ban untuk elemental mercury. Tapi poin yang penting dari export ban dari Jepang adalah untuk mencegah terulangnya pengalaman buruk Minamata di negara lain. Mentri Lingkungan Hidup Jepang saat pertemuan konsultasi di Osaka bulan Sep 2011, menyatakan bahwa mereka harus kirim merkuri keluar Jepang agar tidak membahayakan warga Jepang plus alasan negara mereka rawan gempa dan tsunami..
Sementara itu pemakaian merkuri terbesar di negri kita dan di negara2 lain adalah untuk di tambang emas rakyat (Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining/ASGM). Indonesia mengimpor merkuri 4 ton tahun 2011 hanya untuk pabrik lampu CFL. Kenyataannya, seorang illegal importer mengakui bahwa dia mengimpor 280 Ton untuk persediaan jualan mereka selama 1 tahun.. :-(
Pencemaran di lokasi2 tambang rakyat yang dilakukan oleh para penambang emas membahayakan kesehatan masyarakat dan mencemari lingkungan. Negara pengekspor merkuri tidak peduli merkuri dari negara mereka dipakai apa di negara tujuan.. yang penting NIMBY dan dapat duit... :-(
Pembersihan lahan tidak bisa diharapkan dari para penambang atau penjual emas. Jalan satu2nya adalah menghentikan suplai merkuri dan memperkenalkan metoda non-merkuri.
Untuk itu, tuntutan Mercury Export Ban dari Jepang menjadi salah satu tonggak penting untuk mencegah dan menghentikan pencemaran merkuri dari tambang emas rakyat.
Untuk itu, tuntutan Mercury Export Ban dari Jepang menjadi salah satu tonggak penting untuk mencegah dan menghentikan pencemaran merkuri dari tambang emas rakyat.
Silakan kirim email langsung ke Takeshi ac7t...@asahi-net.or.jp atau ke saya, yu...@balifokus.asia, untuk ikut mendukung Mercury Export Ban dari Jepang.
Deadline tgl.26 Feb 2012.
Salam,
Yuyun
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From: YASUMA Takeshi <ac7t...@asahi-net.or.jp>
Date: Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 1:18 AM
Subject: [Zeromercury] CSO Joint Statement 2012 Japanese Government Needs to Enact Mercury Export Ban Act
To: zerom...@lists.eeb.org, heavy-m...@npogroups.org, IPEN Network Network <ipenn...@npogroups.org>
Dear Friends,
I would like to thank you all for the outpouring of support we received last
month, when launched the Civil Society Organizations Joint Statement -
Japanese Government Needs to Incorporate the Lessons Learned from Minamata
into the Mercury Treaty and posted it with a list of almost 500 signatories
to Japanese government on January 23, 2012!
I come to you again for help. This month, we launch a new policy statement,
"Civil Society Organizations Joint Statement 2012 - Japanese Government
Needs to Enact Mercury Export Ban Act", and we will post it to Japanese
government by end of February. The goal of these successive statements is to
pressure the Japanese government to internalize the Minamata Lessons and
apply this to how it manages its mercury.
As you will see in the explanation below, in spite of the Minamata tragedy,
the Japanese government continues to allow mercury exports to developing
countries where mercury is used in environmentally unsound ways.
Please give us your (individual's or organization's) endorsement to our new
statement in the following way.
-----------------------------------------
Type of endorsement and required data
-----------------------------------------
Individual: your name and country, and if possible, your organization,
specialty and/or title
Organization: name of your organization and country, and if possible, name
of representative and position
Deadline by Sunday February 26 at your local time
Mail address to be sent: ac7t...@asahi-net.or.jp (Mr. Takeshi Yasuma of
CACP)
Best regards,
Takeshi Yasuma
Citizens Against Chemicals Pollution (CACP)
ac7t...@asahi-net.or.jp
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Civil Society Organizations Joint Statement 2012 (Draft)
Japanese Government Needs to Enact Mercury Export Ban Act
PDF version
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/kagaku/pico/mercury/Shiryou/CSO_statement_export_ban_2012_en.pdf
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Honorable Koichiro Genba, Minister for Foreign Affairs
The Honorable Yukio Edano, Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry
The Honorable Goshi Hosono, Minister of the Environment
February xx, 2012
We, civil society organizations concerned about world-wide mercury pollution
strongly urge the Japanese Government to enact a Mercury Export Ban Act at
the earliest possible time.
In accordance with the Decision at the 25th session of the Governing Council
of the UN Environment Program in Nairobi, Kenya on February 2009,
governments all over the world are now 2 meetings away from concluding the
Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) that creates a legally binding
international mercury treaty to reduce world-wide emissions and discharges
of a pollutant that threatens the health of millions, from fetuses and
babies to pregnant women and coastal and indigenous communities reliant on
fish for their subsistence. The INC commenced its work in 2010 with the goal
of completing the negotiations prior to the 27th regular session of the
GC/Global Ministerial Environment Forum in 2013.
The global community also agreed that the risk to human health and the
environment was so significant that an accelerated action under a voluntary
Global Mercury Partnership is needed whilst the treaty is being finalized.
The eight -point partnership plan includes:
-Boosting the world-wide capability for nations to safely store stockpiled
mercury
-Reducing the supply of mercury from for example primary mining of the heavy
metal
-Carrying out awareness-raising of the risks alongside projects to cut the
use of mercury in artisanal mining where an estimated 10 million miners and
their families are exposed
-Reducing mercury in products such as thermometers and sphygmomanometers to
processes such as vinyl chloride production.
At the Asia Mercury Storage Project Inception Workshop held at Bangkok in
March 2009, all Asian countries, international organizations and
non-governmental organizations who participated confirmed the necessity of
safe permanent storage of excess mercury in the Asian region as one of the
tools necessary to further cut mercury supply.
In the autumn of 2008, the European Union (EU) and followed by the United
States of America enacted historic mercury export bans and took related
actions to promote safe storage of excess mercury. The rationale for putting
up the EU and US export bans is the evidence showing that in many developing
countries and countries with economies in transition, majority of mercury
imported from the EU or the US ends up being used in an environmentally
unsound manner.
Although Japan has the tragic history of Minamata with mercury,
unfortunately as shown in the graph and tables, Japanese mercury export
amounts to more than 100 metric tons per year on an average. The exports are
mainly derived from nonferrous metal smelters and recycling of mercury
containing wastes and are exported to developing countries and countries
with economies in transition, resulting in the re-circulation of mercury
into the global marketplace and eventually ending up in environmentally
unsound practices such as whole-ore amalgamation in small-scale gold mining.
As a major trading giant in the world with substantial economic clout, and
also as a country with moral imperative arising from its Minamata
experience, we understand that Japan should become the third global power to
ban the export of mercury following the EU and US. We are certain that the
mercury export bans in concert with the EU, US and Japan will have a
tremendous impact on mercury reduction worldwide and will surely contribute
to accelerate the promotion of an effective international mercury treaty to
be set up by UNEP in 2013.
In view of the foregoing, we the undersigned civil society groups and
individuals, strongly urges the Japanese government to take the following
action immediately.
Enact a Mercury Export Ban that will effectively cease all mercury and
mercury compounds exported by Japan.
Safely place in long-term storage all surplus mercury produced in Japan.
Show good leadership to realize a strong and effective International Mercury
Treaty that honors Minamata, and increased effort to create mercury storage
capacity in the Asian region.
The circle of mercury poisoning must end. Japan can do no less to help end
the global mercury poisoning. It can do no less in honor of Minamata.
END
Contact:
Takeshi Yasuma
Citizens Against Chemicals Pollution (CACP), Japan
ac7t...@asahi-net.or.jp
Richard Gutierrez
Ban Toxics! / Zero Mercury Working Group, Philippines
rguti...@bantoxics.org
Attachment:
Data for Mercury Export of Japan
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/kagaku/pico/mercury/Shiryou/data_mercury_export_Japan_en.pdf
-----------------------------------------------------
Why is the mercury export ban of Japan important?
-----------------------------------------------------
Under the UN Environment Program (UNEP), the Intergovernmental Negotiating
Committee (INC) that creates a legally binding international mercury treaty
to reduce worldwide emissions and discharges of mercury commenced its work
in 2010 with the goal of completing the negotiations in 2013. The three
meetings (INC1, INC2 and INC3) were already taken place and the two meetings
(NC4 and INC5) are scheduled to be held this year and next year
respectively.
One of the most important agendas being negotiated at the INCs to reduce
worldwide emission of mercury is reduction of mercury export. In the autumn
of 2008, the European Union (EU) and followed by the United States of
America enacted historic mercury export bans and took related actions to
promote safe storage of excess mercury.
On the other hand, although Japan has the tragic history of Minamata with
mercury, unfortunately as shown in the graph and tables referred at Para.3,
Japanese mercury export amounts to more than 100 metric tons per year on an
average. The exports are mainly derived from nonferrous metal smelters and
recycling of mercury containing wastes and are exported to developing
countries and countries with economies in transition, resulting in the
re-circulation of mercury into the global marketplace and eventually ending
up in environmentally unsound practices such as whole-ore amalgamation in
small-scale gold mining.
As major trading giants in the world with substantial economic clout, we are
certain that the mercury export bans in concert with the EU, US and Japan
will have a tremendous impact on mercury reduction worldwide and will surely
contribute to accelerate the promotion of an effective international mercury
treaty to be set up by UNEP in 2013.
In October 2009, we already submitted the first CSO Joint statement to ask
Japanese government to enact mercury export ban act but so far, Japanese
government did nothing at all, and so this time we decided to launch the
second CSO Joint statement for Japanese mercury export ban.
As mentioned above, in the separate statement we are now asking Japanese
government to make every effort to Incorporate the Lessons Learned from
Minamata into Article 14 Contaminated Site. If Japanese government who is
responsible for the Minamata tragedy can realize the requirements in the
both CSO statements, then we think it is a chance for Japan to become
champion of the mercury treaty.
*********************************************
Takeshi YASUMA
Coordinator
Citizens Against Chemicals Pollution (CACP)
Z Bldg. 4F, 7-10-1 Kameido, Koto-ku,
Tokyo, 136-0071, Japan
TEL/FAX +81-3-5836-4358
E-mail: ac7t...@asahi-net.or.jp
Skype: yasuma.takeshi
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/kagaku/pico/
*********************************************
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From: YASUMA Takeshi <ac7t...@asahi-net.or.jp>
Date: Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 1:18 AM
Subject: [Zeromercury] CSO Joint Statement 2012 Japanese Government Needs to Enact Mercury Export Ban Act
To: zerom...@lists.eeb.org, heavy-m...@npogroups.org, IPEN Network Network <ipenn...@npogroups.org>
Dear Friends,
I would like to thank you all for the outpouring of support we received last
month, when launched the Civil Society Organizations Joint Statement -
Japanese Government Needs to Incorporate the Lessons Learned from Minamata
into the Mercury Treaty and posted it with a list of almost 500 signatories
to Japanese government on January 23, 2012!
I come to you again for help. This month, we launch a new policy statement,
"Civil Society Organizations Joint Statement 2012 - Japanese Government
Needs to Enact Mercury Export Ban Act", and we will post it to Japanese
government by end of February. The goal of these successive statements is to
pressure the Japanese government to internalize the Minamata Lessons and
apply this to how it manages its mercury.
As you will see in the explanation below, in spite of the Minamata tragedy,
the Japanese government continues to allow mercury exports to developing
countries where mercury is used in environmentally unsound ways.
Please give us your (individual's or organization's) endorsement to our new
statement in the following way.
-----------------------------------------
Type of endorsement and required data
-----------------------------------------
Individual: your name and country, and if possible, your organization,
specialty and/or title
Organization: name of your organization and country, and if possible, name
of representative and position
Deadline by Sunday February 26 at your local time
Mail address to be sent: ac7t...@asahi-net.or.jp (Mr. Takeshi Yasuma of
CACP)
Best regards,
Takeshi Yasuma
Citizens Against Chemicals Pollution (CACP)
ac7t...@asahi-net.or.jp
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Civil Society Organizations Joint Statement 2012 (Draft)
Japanese Government Needs to Enact Mercury Export Ban Act
PDF version
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/kagaku/pico/mercury/Shiryou/CSO_statement_export_ban_2012_en.pdf
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Honorable Koichiro Genba, Minister for Foreign Affairs
The Honorable Yukio Edano, Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry
The Honorable Goshi Hosono, Minister of the Environment
February xx, 2012
We, civil society organizations concerned about world-wide mercury pollution
strongly urge the Japanese Government to enact a Mercury Export Ban Act at
the earliest possible time.
In accordance with the Decision at the 25th session of the Governing Council
of the UN Environment Program in Nairobi, Kenya on February 2009,
governments all over the world are now 2 meetings away from concluding the
Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) that creates a legally binding
international mercury treaty to reduce world-wide emissions and discharges
of a pollutant that threatens the health of millions, from fetuses and
babies to pregnant women and coastal and indigenous communities reliant on
fish for their subsistence. The INC commenced its work in 2010 with the goal
of completing the negotiations prior to the 27th regular session of the
GC/Global Ministerial Environment Forum in 2013.
The global community also agreed that the risk to human health and the
environment was so significant that an accelerated action under a voluntary
Global Mercury Partnership is needed whilst the treaty is being finalized.
The eight -point partnership plan includes:
-Boosting the world-wide capability for nations to safely store stockpiled
mercury
-Reducing the supply of mercury from for example primary mining of the heavy
metal
-Carrying out awareness-raising of the risks alongside projects to cut the
use of mercury in artisanal mining where an estimated 10 million miners and
their families are exposed
-Reducing mercury in products such as thermometers and sphygmomanometers to
processes such as vinyl chloride production.
At the Asia Mercury Storage Project Inception Workshop held at Bangkok in
March 2009, all Asian countries, international organizations and
non-governmental organizations who participated confirmed the necessity of
safe permanent storage of excess mercury in the Asian region as one of the
tools necessary to further cut mercury supply.
In the autumn of 2008, the European Union (EU) and followed by the United
States of America enacted historic mercury export bans and took related
actions to promote safe storage of excess mercury. The rationale for putting
up the EU and US export bans is the evidence showing that in many developing
countries and countries with economies in transition, majority of mercury
imported from the EU or the US ends up being used in an environmentally
unsound manner.
Although Japan has the tragic history of Minamata with mercury,
unfortunately as shown in the graph and tables, Japanese mercury export
amounts to more than 100 metric tons per year on an average. The exports are
mainly derived from nonferrous metal smelters and recycling of mercury
containing wastes and are exported to developing countries and countries
with economies in transition, resulting in the re-circulation of mercury
into the global marketplace and eventually ending up in environmentally
unsound practices such as whole-ore amalgamation in small-scale gold mining.
As a major trading giant in the world with substantial economic clout, and
also as a country with moral imperative arising from its Minamata
experience, we understand that Japan should become the third global power to
ban the export of mercury following the EU and US. We are certain that the
mercury export bans in concert with the EU, US and Japan will have a
tremendous impact on mercury reduction worldwide and will surely contribute
to accelerate the promotion of an effective international mercury treaty to
be set up by UNEP in 2013.
In view of the foregoing, we the undersigned civil society groups and
individuals, strongly urges the Japanese government to take the following
action immediately.
Enact a Mercury Export Ban that will effectively cease all mercury and
mercury compounds exported by Japan.
Safely place in long-term storage all surplus mercury produced in Japan.
Show good leadership to realize a strong and effective International Mercury
Treaty that honors Minamata, and increased effort to create mercury storage
capacity in the Asian region.
The circle of mercury poisoning must end. Japan can do no less to help end
the global mercury poisoning. It can do no less in honor of Minamata.
END
Contact:
Takeshi Yasuma
Citizens Against Chemicals Pollution (CACP), Japan
ac7t...@asahi-net.or.jp
Richard Gutierrez
Ban Toxics! / Zero Mercury Working Group, Philippines
rguti...@bantoxics.org
Attachment:
Data for Mercury Export of Japan
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/kagaku/pico/mercury/Shiryou/data_mercury_export_Japan_en.pdf
-----------------------------------------------------
Why is the mercury export ban of Japan important?
-----------------------------------------------------
Under the UN Environment Program (UNEP), the Intergovernmental Negotiating
Committee (INC) that creates a legally binding international mercury treaty
to reduce worldwide emissions and discharges of mercury commenced its work
in 2010 with the goal of completing the negotiations in 2013. The three
meetings (INC1, INC2 and INC3) were already taken place and the two meetings
(NC4 and INC5) are scheduled to be held this year and next year
respectively.
One of the most important agendas being negotiated at the INCs to reduce
worldwide emission of mercury is reduction of mercury export. In the autumn
of 2008, the European Union (EU) and followed by the United States of
America enacted historic mercury export bans and took related actions to
promote safe storage of excess mercury.
On the other hand, although Japan has the tragic history of Minamata with
mercury, unfortunately as shown in the graph and tables referred at Para.3,
Japanese mercury export amounts to more than 100 metric tons per year on an
average. The exports are mainly derived from nonferrous metal smelters and
recycling of mercury containing wastes and are exported to developing
countries and countries with economies in transition, resulting in the
re-circulation of mercury into the global marketplace and eventually ending
up in environmentally unsound practices such as whole-ore amalgamation in
small-scale gold mining.
As major trading giants in the world with substantial economic clout, we are
certain that the mercury export bans in concert with the EU, US and Japan
will have a tremendous impact on mercury reduction worldwide and will surely
contribute to accelerate the promotion of an effective international mercury
treaty to be set up by UNEP in 2013.
In October 2009, we already submitted the first CSO Joint statement to ask
Japanese government to enact mercury export ban act but so far, Japanese
government did nothing at all, and so this time we decided to launch the
second CSO Joint statement for Japanese mercury export ban.
As mentioned above, in the separate statement we are now asking Japanese
government to make every effort to Incorporate the Lessons Learned from
Minamata into Article 14 Contaminated Site. If Japanese government who is
responsible for the Minamata tragedy can realize the requirements in the
both CSO statements, then we think it is a chance for Japan to become
champion of the mercury treaty.
*********************************************
Takeshi YASUMA
Coordinator
Citizens Against Chemicals Pollution (CACP)
Z Bldg. 4F, 7-10-1 Kameido, Koto-ku,
Tokyo, 136-0071, Japan
TEL/FAX +81-3-5836-4358
E-mail: ac7t...@asahi-net.or.jp
Skype: yasuma.takeshi
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/kagaku/pico/
*********************************************
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