Research Catalog

Title

Technical background report for the global mercury assessment 2013 / UNEP, AMAP.

Publication

Nairobi, Kenya : United Nations Environment Programme, [2013]

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Additional Authors

• Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme, sponsoring body. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr97041939
• 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

vi, 263 pages : color illustrations, maps; 30 cm

Summary

"This report details the technical background to the Global Mercury Assessment 2013 - Sources, Emissions, Releases and Environmental Transport (summary for policy-makers) that has been developed in response to Decision 25/5 III, paragraph 36 of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), that: 'Request 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.' This technical background report has been developed in collaboration with the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP). As such, this report also constitutes a contribution to the work of AMAP and the Arctic Council."--Preface.

Subjects

• Methylmercury > Environmental aspects
• Mercury > Environmental aspects
• Methylmercury > Toxicology
• Mercury > Toxicology

Note

• "The work has been funded by the Governments of Canada, Denmark, Japan, Norway, and Sweden, and by the Nordic Council of Ministers and the European Union. Produced by Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme, AMAP Secretariat and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Division of Technology, Industry and Economics (DTIE), Chemicals Branch."--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-259).

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available in an electronic version.

Contents

Introduction -- Global emissions of mercury to the atmosphere -- Atmospheric pathways, transport and fate -- Global releases of mercury to aquatic environments -- Aquatic pathways, transport and fate -- Annex 1: Method used to estimate 2010 mercury emissions to air from main 'by-product' emission sectors and the chlor-alkali industry, including an example calculation -- Annex 2: Method used to estimate 2010 mercury emissions to air from artisanal and small-scale gold mining, including an example calculation -- Annex 3: Method used to estimate 2010 mercury emissions to air from wastes associated with intentional use sectors, including an example calculation -- Annex 4: Method used to estimate 2010 mercury emissions to air from use in dental amalgam and human cremation -- Annex 5: Activity data used in the calculation of emission estimates -- Annex 6: Emission factors and technology profiles used in the calculation of emission estimates -- Annex 7: Comparison of calculated and reported national emission estimates for 2010 -- Annex 8: Global inventory estimates 2010.

ISBN

• 8279710809
• 9788279710806

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library