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Developing a National Action Plan to Reduce, and Where Feasible, Eliminate Mercury Use in Artisanal and Small Scale Gold Mining - Draft version
(2015)
This document represents an expansion of the UNEP’s Guidance Document: Developing a National Strategic Plan to Reduce Mercury Use in Artisanal and Small Scale Gold Mining (UNEP 2011), and is intended to reflect Convention ...
Global Mercury Modelling: Update of Modelling Results in the Global Mercury Assessment 2013
(2015)
Global Mercury Modelling: Update of Modelling Results in the Global Mercury Assessment 2013
Final Report of the Implementation of the Project Intitled « Replacing Mercury-Added Products and Promoting Improved Management of Mercury-Added Product Waste in Madagascar »
(2015)
Malagasy population is exposed to health and environmental risks associated with the use of mercury-containing products such as dental amalgams, battery and lamp, thermometers and sphygmomanometers because Madagascar is ...
Standard Operational Procedures for the Monitoring of Mercury and Methylmercury in Fish and Shellfish
(2015)
The Standard Operational Procedures is specifically focused on a monitoring plan to estimate the reduction of mercury and methylmercury level in fish and shellfish and to identify potentially highly-exposed population ...
Report of the Meeting of the Partnership area Leads of the UNEP Global Mercury Partnership
(03/08/2015)
The meeting of the Partnership area Leads of the UNEP Global Mercury Partnership (GMP) took place at the International Conference Center in Jeju, Korea on 16 June 2015 in the sidelines of the 12th International Conference ...
The United Nation’s Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Minamata Convention on Mercury: A comparison for the Coal Combustion Sector
(2015)
The UNFCCC is based on a top down approach, giving an overall goal for greenhouse gas reductions
but with flexibility on how to achieve these reductions. The UNFCCC can be regarded as the
instigator for activities and ...
Final Report: UNEP Mercury Project - Project: SSFA/2015/DTIE/Chemicals Branch/Yayasan Tambuhak Sinta. Project Number: MC/4030-14-62
(2015)
Since 2006, YTS has worked with UNIDO, UNEP, the Blacksmith Institute, and other donors to support the Government of Indonesia (GOI) to reduce mercury use in artisanal gold mining, by conducting mercury-recycling interventions, ...
Developing Baseline Estimates of Mercury Use in Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining Communities: A Practical Guide
(2015)
This guide is an educational and training document that can be used as a practical introduction to conducting baseline estimates of mercury use in artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) communities.
Pollution in the Open Oceans 2009-2013 - A Report by a GESAMP Task Team. Reports and Studies 91
(2015)
The present report examines new information and scientific perspectives on the open oceans that have emerged in the 5 year period since GESAMP first addressed this topic. Not all of the topics covered by the 2009 report ...