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Nations agree on global, legally binding treaty on mercury emissions: Minamata Convention on Mercury
2013-01-19 17:30:19| Green Car Congress
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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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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Will the Mercury Treaty Negotiations Reduce Mercury Poisoning Around the World?
2013-01-12 19:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Delegates arrived at the Geneva International Conference Center this morning for regional meetings before tomorrows start of the mercury treaty negotiations. Most of these regional meetings were closed. Of those that were open, the news is that European Union, Central Eastern Europe and Asia Pacific support the name of "Minamata Treaty." But will they ensure that the treaty will be sufficient to prevent mercury poisoning from occurring around the world? At a lunchtime panel, world-renowned Professor...
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Treaty 'insufficient' to reduce global mercury levels
2013-01-11 18:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Even as government negotiators from around the world prepare to gather next week for a final round of talks on a new international treaty limiting the use of mercury, scientists and activists are warning that the draft treaty is both too weak and too limited in scope to have a major impact. "Based on what's happened so far, based on the draft text, we have strong doubts that the treaty will actually be sufficient to reduce global levels of mercury in fish and seafood," Joe DiGangi, a science and...
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