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Global Mercury: Supply, Trade and Demand
(2017-09)
A good understanding of mercury supply, trade and demand is critical to effective implementation of the Convention. This report provides detailed and timely information on where mercury comes from, how it moves in commerce, ...
Report on Activities Undertaken within the UN Environment Global Mercury Partnership (July 2017 – August 2018): Note by the Secretariat
(2018)
The Chemicals and Health Branch of the UN Environment Economy Division has drafted a report on activities within the UN Environment Global Mercury Partnership, which is set out in the annex to the present note. The current ...
Global Mercury Assessment 2018
(2019)
This update to GMA 2013 provides the most recent information available for the worldwide emissions to air, releases to water, and transport of mercury in atmospheric and aquatic environments. In this report, “mercury” ...
Determination of Total Mercury in Selected Marine Organisms by Cold Vapour Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry. Reference Methods for Marine Pollution Studies No. 8 Rev. 1
(1984)
This reference method describes the determination of total mercury in biological material by atomic absorption spectrophotometry after the organic matter has been decmposed by wet chemical digestion under pressure. Detection ...
Mercury - Environmental Health Criteria 1
(1976)
As stated on page 5, the purpose of the criteria documents is to compile, review, and evaluate available information on the biological effects of pollutants and other environmental factors that may influence man's health, ...
Technical Background Report to the Global Mercury Assessment 2018 [Pre-print]
(2019)
This report details the technical background to the Global Mercury Assessment 2018 that has been developed in response to a decision at the twenty-seventh session of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment ...
Reducing Mercury Emission from Coal Combustion in the Energy Sector in Thailand: A UN Environment Report
(2018)
This study aims to conduct an inventory of mercury emissions from selected coal-fired power plants in Thailand.
The Contamination of Food
(1992)
The GEMS/Food monitoring programme aims not only to protect public health, but to promote confidence in the purity of foodstuffs through international information exchange on food contamination, and thus encourage international ...
Determination of Mercury in Estuarine Waters and Suspended Sediment by Cold Vapour Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry - UNEP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 19
(1985)
This Reference Method is applicable for the analysis of different forms of mercury in water and suspended sediments. Inorganic dissolved mercury, total dissolved and particulate mercury are measured after mineralization ...
Global Mercury Assessment
(2002)
This report responds to the request of the Governing Council (GC) of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), through GC decision 21/5, that UNEP undertake a global assessment of mercury and mercury compounds, in ...