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The Minamata Convention on Mercury: A First Step toward Protecting Future Generations
In October 2013, a new international convention to control mercury emissions will be open for signing in Japan. Named the Minamata Convention on Mercury, the agreement is a response to the realization that mercury pollution is a global problem that no one country can solve alone. The convention was four years in the making, with more than 130 nations agreeing by consensus to a final text in January 2013. It includes both compulsory and voluntary measures to control mercury emissions from various sources, to phase the element out of certain products and industrial processes, to restrict its trade, and to eliminate mining of it.
David Evers, Ph.D., executive director of Biodiversity Research Institute and a member of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), helped inform the Global Treaty on Mercury.
For the full story by Rebecca Kessler, science and environmental journalist based in Providence, RI.
To view a map showing which countries have signed the Treaty, click here.
