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• Mercury: Time to Act115 was released a few days ahead of the final negotiations on the new
mercury treaty at the International Negotiating Committee on Mercury (INC5) held in
Geneva in January 2013. It provided brief, up-to-date background information as an advo-
cacy piece towards action on mercury management and control, providing governments
and civil society with the rationale and imperative to act on this notorious pollutant. The
publication was commissioned by the UNEP Chemicals Branch in Geneva and prepared
in partnership with Zöi Environment.
• Mercury: Acting Now116 shows national policy and decision makers how the work of the
UNEP Global Mercury Partnership contributes to the implementation of the Minamata
Convention on Mercury. The brochure was presented at the Conference of Plenipoten-
tiaries on the Minamata Convention on Mercury that was held in Minamata and Kuma-
moto, Japan in October 2013
• Stolen Apes: The Illicit Trade in Chimpanzees, Gorillas, Bonobos and
Orangutans117 and Elephants in the Dust: The African Elephant Poach-
ing Crisis118 are Rapid Response Assessments (RRAs) released at side
events of COP 16 of the Convention on the Illegal Trade in Endangered
Species (CITES) held in Bangkok in March 2013. While Stolen Apes ex-
amines the illegal trade in apes and highlights the growing links to
sophisticated trans-boundary crime networks, Elephants in the Dust
provides an overview of the current state of the African elephant and
recommendations for action to ensure its protection. Both reports are
available in English and French.
• Green Carbon, Black Trade: Illegal Logging, Tax Fraud and Laundering in the World’s
Tropical Forests119 is an RRA released on 27 September 2012 during World Forestry Week
hosted in Rome. The report, jointly edited by GRID-Arendal and INTERPOL, focuses on
the tactics being deployed in illegal logging and options for reducing both deforestation
and carbon emissions.120 The report is available in English, French and Spanish.
• Food Lost, Food Waste, an RRA report, examines the role of ecosystem services in food
provisioning and how ecosystem based management approaches can avert food loss
and waste. The report will be released in 2014.
• Green Economy in a Blue World121 analyzes how key sectors linked with the marine and
coastal environment – the Blue World – can transition towards a Green Economy, simulta-
neously benefiting coastal communities and ocean-linked industries. Links between ship-
ping, fisheries, tourism, marine-based renewable energies and agriculture are all explored.
The synthesis report was launched at the 3rd Intergovernmental Review Panel of the Glob-
al Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-based
Activities held in Manila, January 2012. The full report was completed in August 2012.
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