Mercury - Time to Act

MERCURY – TIME TO ACT

Index

Accidents 13

Agriculture 20, 22

Alternative technologies 5, 6-7, 9, 36-37

Arctic and Antarctic 5, 8, 10, 22-23, 25, 28

Artic Monitoring and Assessment Program (AMAP) 22-23, 25

Artisanal and small-scalegoldmining (ASGM) 5, 6, 15-19, 21, 24-27, 30-31, 36

Awareness-raising 14,21,24

Burning of fossil fuels and biomass 5, 7, 20, 26-27, 28, 31

Cardiovascular effects 23, 24

Cement production 7, 12, 21, 24, 27

Chlor-alkali 5, 6, 16-17, 21, 24, 27, 32-33, 36

Coal combustion 5, 7, 12, 21, 26-27, 28, 31, 32, 35

Controls 7, 9, 15,16, 18, 27, 31, 32-33, 36-37

Contamination 8, 13, 19, 21, 22-23, 25, 31

Disposal 6, 20, 33, 34-35, 37

Ecosystems 20

Endangering livelihoods 36

Environmental damage 11, 17

Environmentally sound management 7, 8, 35

Emissions 5, 6-7, 8, 10, 16, 20, 22-23, 26-29, 31, 32-33, 35, 36

Erosion 28

European Union (EU) 10, 16, 25, 32-34

Exposure 8, 20, 23-24, 37

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) 22

Food chain 8, 13-15, 19, 20, 22-23

Global demand and supply 12, 15, 16-17, 19

Global Mercury Partnership 9, 42, 32-33

Global mercury treaty 5-10, 19, 32-33, 37

Health 5, 6, 8-9, 11, 15, 17, 19, 20, 23-25, 32

Hotspots 31