One important way that IPEN representatives from NGOs around the world participated in the INC2 was by making interventions on specific issues during plenary. Please find the interventions below:

24 January, 2011

• IPEN’s Opening Statement (Russian) (Opening Statement English translation) given by Dr. Olga Speranskaya, IPEN
• IPEN intervention on Article 4 of the draft Elements paper (storage)- given by Dr. Mariann Lloyd-Smith, IPEN
• IPEN / Health Care Without Harm intervention on Article 7 of the draft Elements paper (mercury-added products) – given by Manny Calonzo, Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA)
• IPEN intervention on Article 9 of the draft Elements paper (artisanal and small scale gold mining) – given by Yuyun Ismawati, BaliFokus
• IPEN Intervention on Article 10 of the draft Elements paper (atmospheric mercury emissions) – given by Dr. Olga Speranskaya, IPEN
• IPEN intervention on Article 11 of the draft Elements paper (releases to water and land) – given by Dr. Mariann Lloyd-Smith, IPEN
• IPEN / ZMWG intervention on Article 13 of the draft Elements paper (contaminated sites) – given by Takeshi Yasuma, Citizens Against Chemicals Pollution (CACP)
• IPEN intervention on waste and the role of the Basel Convention – given by Alan Watson, Public Interest Consultants
• IPEN intervention on trade and small island developing states – given by Imogen Ingram, Island Sustainability Alliance, Cook Islands (ISACI)
• IPEN intervention on Articles 18-20 of the draft Elements paper- given by Dr. Olga Speranskaya, IPEN
• IPEN intervention on Article 8 of the draft Elements paper (manufacturing processes in which mercury is used) (English and Russian) – given by Elena Vasilieva, Volgograd Ecopress
• IPEN intervention on Articles 21 of the draft Elements paper (national implementation plans) – given by Dr. Mariann Lloyd-Smith, IPEN
• IPEN intervention on Articles 23 of the draft Elements paper (effectiveness evaluation) -  given by Dr. Mariann Lloyd-Smith, IPEN