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140 countries agree mercury treaty
2013-01-19 13:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: More than 140 nations have agreed on the first legally-binding treaty to curb mercury pollution. Delegates at UN talks in Geneva approved measures to control the use of the highly toxic metal, which is widely used in chemical production and small-scale mining, in order to limit mercury emissions. The executive director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), Achim Steiner, said: "To agree on global targets is not easy to do. There was no delegation here that wished to leave Geneva without drafting...
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Countries agree UN mercury rules
2013-01-19 09:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: More than 140 countries have agreed on a set of legally binding measures to curb mercury pollution, at UN talks. Delegates in Geneva approved measures to control the use of the highly toxic metal in order to reduce the amount of mercury released into the environment. Mercury can produce a range of adverse human health effects, including permanent damage to the nervous system. The UN recently published data that showed mercury emissions were rising in a number of developing nations. The...
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U.N. clinches global deal on cutting mercury emissions
2013-01-19 09:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: More than 140 countries have reached a deal to cut mercury emissions after all-night talks in Geneva, the U.N. Environment Program (UNEP) said on Saturday. The agreement aimed to phase out many common household products that use the liquid metal, like thermometers and some fluorescent lamps, and reduce emissions from power plants and cement factories, UNEP spokesman Nick Nuttall told Reuters. "A treaty to start to begin to rid the world of a notorious health-hazardous metal was agreed in the...
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What Will Be the Outcome of the Mercury Treaty Negotiations?
2013-01-18 17:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: [Editor's note: Waterkeeper Alliance's International Director Sharon Khan is attending the mercury treaty negotiations in Geneva, Switzerland, and is providing live updates from the conference. For information regarding the mercury treaty negotiations, read Mercury Rising, Political Will Falling by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Marc Yaggi, and the report Global Mercury Hotspots.] BLOG POST IV (Read Blog Post I, Blog Post II, Blog Post III) When delegates broke for lunch, pubic interest groups...
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Mercury emissions threaten ocean, lake food webs
2013-01-18 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental Health News: As United Nations delegates end their mercury treaty talks today, scientists warn that ongoing emissions are more of a threat to food webs than the mercury already in the environment. At the same time, climate change is likely to alter food webs and patterns of mercury transport in places such as the Arctic, which will further complicate efforts to keep the contaminant out of people and their food. The discovery that new mercury seems to be more of a threat than old mercury could add impetus for...
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