Mercury - Time to Act

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United Nations Environment Programme
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This report speaks directly to governments
involved in development of the global
treaty on mercury. It presents updates
from the UNEP Global Mercury Assessment
2013 in short and punchy facts and figures
backed by compelling graphics that provide
governments and civil society with the
rationale and the imperative to act on this
notorious pollutant.
The report underlines the fact that mercury
remains a major global, regional and national
challenge in terms of threats to human health
and the environment, especially but not
uniquely to the health of pregnant woman
and babies world-wide through the eating
of contaminated fish for example or marine
mammals in places like the Arctic.
UNEP
Division ofTechnology, Industry and Economics
Chemicals Branch
International Environment House 1
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CH -1219 Châtelaine, Geneva
Switzerland
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ISBN: 978-92-807-3310-5
Job Number: DTI/1623/GE