Data for 'Formalizing Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining: a Grand Challenge of the Minamata Convention'

Signatories to the Minamata Convention on Mercury with ‘more than insignificant’ artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) sectors are required to develop and implement National Action Plans (NAPs) to reform their ASGM sectors in line with Annexe C of the Convention. We compiled the budgets of available NAPs for reducing mercury emissions from ASGM sectors. As of 2021-12-31, these were available for 16 countries from: www.mercuryconvention.org/en/parties/national-action-plans. We used these data to estimate the approximate costs of expanding such approaches globally.