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The first session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to prepare a global legally binding instrument on Mercury (INC1) will be held in Stockholm, Sweden, from June 7 to 11 2010.
Mercury is recognized as a chemical of global concern due to its long-range transport in the atmosphere, its persistence in the environment, its ability to bioaccumulate in ecosystems and its significant negative effect on human health and the environment.  Mercury can produce a range of adverse human health effects, including permanent damage to the nervous system, in particular the developing nervous system.  Due to these effects, and also because mercury can be transferred from a mother to her unborn child, infants, children and women of child bearing age are considered vulnerable populations.
Governments unanimously decided to launch negotiations on an international mercury treaty to deal with world - wide emissions and discharges of a pollutant that threatens the health of millions, from fetuses and babies to small - scale gold miners and their families.

The Mercury Committee website:
http://www.unep.org/hazardoussubstances/Mercury/Negotiations/INC1/tabid/3324/language/en-US/Default.aspx

Basic information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_%28element%29
http://www.unep.org/hazardoussubstances/Mercury/tabid/434/language/en-US/Default.aspx

Daily Web Coverage:
http://www.iisd.ca/mercury/inc1/

Summary Report:

http://www.iisd.ca/vol28/enb2806e.html

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Sull'argomento:

http://www.greenreport.it/_new/index.php?page=default&id=8023