How the Minamata Convention is aiming to end mercury’s millennia-long toxic run

 UNEP also participates in the planetGOLD programme, an effort led by the Global Environment Facility that aims to end the use of mercury in small-scale gold mining, an industry that generates US$30 billion annually. The programme works in 23 developing countries.

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