GeoComms GIS Solutions has been formally accepted as a partner of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Global Mercury Partnership under the Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining (ASGM) partnership area. This milestone reflects GeoComms’ commitment to strengthening evidence-based environmental governance and protecting watershed-dependent communities from mercury-related risks.

The UNEP Global Mercury Partnership brings together governments, international organizations, private sector actors, and technical institutions to reduce mercury releases to air, land, and water in support of the Minamata Convention on Mercury.

As a registered partner, GeoComms will contribute technical expertise in:

• Geospatial watershed analysis
• Basin-scale environmental diagnostics
• Mercury risk pathway assessment
• River system intelligence modeling

GeoComms’ current work centers on watershed health assessment and structural basin analysis aligned with the UN System of Environmental-Economic Accounting for Water (SEEA-Water). Through its OpenHUR (Open Hydrologic Unit Reference) framework, GeoComms develops methodologies to delineate and structurally characterize river basins and sub-basins.

This approach enables environmental risks—such as mercury transport pathways—to be traced from upstream mining areas to downstream communities and ecosystems.

“Mercury contamination is ultimately a watershed problem. Policy frameworks are essential, but decision-makers also require basin-level intelligence that shows where risks concentrate and where interventions can be prioritized.”

In the Philippines, GeoComms is engaging national and local stakeholders to pilot watershed-based environmental diagnostics supporting:

• Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)
• Pollution risk assessment
• Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)

These efforts contribute directly to:

• SDG 6 – Clean Water and Sanitation
• SDG 12 – Responsible Consumption and Production
• SDG 15 – Life on Land

GeoComms looks forward to collaborating with UNEP partners and national agencies to share methodologies, pilot results, and practical geospatial tools that support targeted environmental action in ASGM-affected watersheds and beyond.