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Global mercury assessment 2013 : sources, emissions, releases and environmental transport.

Title
Global mercury assessment 2013 : sources, emissions, releases and environmental transport.
Publication
Nairobi, Kenya : United Nations Environment Programme, [2013]

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  • UNEP Chemicals, sponsoring body. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2003127006
  • United Nations Environment Programme, issuing body. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80002388
Description
iv, 32 pages : color illustrations; 30 cm
Summary
"This report, focusing on anthropogenic emissions of mercury and their transport and transformation in the environment, is a contribution to international efforts to reduce mercury pollution. This summary report and the accompanying Technical Background Report for the Global Mercury Assessment 2013 are developed in response to Decision 25/5, paragraph 36 of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), that: Requests the Executive Director, in consultation with Governments, to update the 2008 report entitled 'Global Atmospheric Mercury Assessment: Sources, Emissions and Transport,' for consideration by the Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum at its twenty-seventh session. The report provides the most recent information available on worldwide atmospheric mercury emissions, releases to the aquatic environment, and the transport and fate of mercury in the global environment. The report emphasizes emissions to air from human (anthropogenic) activities, but includes releases to water because the aquatic environment is the main route of exposure to humans and wildlife. It is in aquatic systems that the inorganic mercury is transformed into the more toxic form, methylmercury, which can accumulate in fish and marine mammals consumed by humans."--Executive summary.
Alternative Title
UNEP global mercury assessment 2013
Subject
  • Mercury > Environmental aspects
  • Mercury > Toxicology
  • Methylmercury > Environmental aspects
  • Methylmercury > Toxicology
Note
  • Cover title.
  • "The work has been funded by the Governments of Canada, Denmark, Japan, Sweden, Norway, the Nordic Council of Ministers and the EU. Produced by UNEP Division of Technology, Industry and Economics, Chemicals Branch"--Title page verso.
Contents
Introduction -- Sources of mercury emissions to air and releases to water -- Anthropogenic emissions to the atmosphere -- Trends in mercury emissions to the atmosphere -- Atmospheric chemistry, monitoring, and trends -- Atmospheric concentrations and deposition -- Anthropogenic releases to the aquatic environment Aquatic pathways, transport, and fate -- Major gaps in knowledge -- Key findings of the 2013 assessment.
ISBN
  • 9211587271
  • 9789211587272
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library