Combating the threat of mercury

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has been working to address mercury issues since 2003 and its current mercury programme has two main facets. An intergovernmental negotiating committee is working to develop a global legally binding instrument to strengthen global action on mercury. In tandem, a UNEP Global Mercury Partnership aims to protect human health and the global environment from the release of mercury and its compounds by minimizing and, wherever feasible, ultimately eliminating global, anthropogenic mercury releases to air, water and land. Mercury rapidly moved up the pollution control agenda in the EU, the US and Asia prior to the legally binding UNEP global treaty on mercury implemented in 2013.
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