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Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Mercury a time-bomb to be stopped

The NGO's strategy on mercury reduction can be summarized in the five points below: 
  • Work should start towards a global binding instrument on mercury, as soon as possible.
  • The findings of the trade report conducted for UNEP should be utilised and concrete actions should be taken including the following:
  • Global Mercury Demand Reduction goal of 50% by 2012 and 70% by 2017.
  • Global Mercury Supply Reduction
  • Financial Assistance
Developed countries should provide new and additional financial resources to support these activities in developing nations, and GEF should create a financial assistance mechanism to support global mercury activities consistent with the above proposals.
http://www.wwfguianas.org/our_work/goldmining/mercury_timebomb.cfm

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