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What Will Be the Outcome of the Mercury Treaty Negotiations?

2013-01-18 17:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EcoWatch: [Editor's note: Waterkeeper Alliance's International Director Sharon Khan is attending the mercury treaty negotiations in Geneva, Switzerland, and is providing live updates from the conference. For information regarding the mercury treaty negotiations, read Mercury Rising, Political Will Falling by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Marc Yaggi, and the report Global Mercury Hotspots.] BLOG POST IV (Read Blog Post I, Blog Post II, Blog Post III) When delegates broke for lunch, pubic interest groups...

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Will the Mercury Treaty Negotiations Reduce Mercury Poisoning Around the World?

2013-01-12 19:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EcoWatch: Delegates arrived at the Geneva International Conference Center this morning for regional meetings before tomorrows start of the mercury treaty negotiations. Most of these regional meetings were closed. Of those that were open, the news is that European Union, Central Eastern Europe and Asia Pacific support the name of "Minamata Treaty." But will they ensure that the treaty will be sufficient to prevent mercury poisoning from occurring around the world? At a lunchtime panel, world-renowned Professor...

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