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Mercury emissions crackdown agreed as UN finalises global deal
2013-01-21 11:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: A host of products and industrial processes are to be phased out from 2020, including some energy-efficient light bulbs, batteries and coal technologies, as part of an international effort to reduce harmful mercury pollution. The UN-backed Minamata Convention, named after the city in Japan that suffered from severe mercury pollution in the mid-20th century, was agreed on Saturday by 140 nations at a summit in Geneva. The new treaty will now be formally signed at a meeting in Japan in October,...
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U.N. clinches global deal on cutting mercury emissions
2013-01-21 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: More than 140 countries have agreed on the first global treaty to cut mercury pollution through a blacklist of household items and new controls on power plants and small-scale mines, the United Nations said on Saturday. The legally-binding agreement aims to phase out many products that use the toxic liquid metal such as batteries, thermometers and some fluorescent lamps, through banning global import and exports by 2020. The treaty will require countries with coal-fired power plants such as...
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Mercury Treaty Finalized: Will it Reduce Global Emissions?
2013-01-20 17:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: [Editor's note: Waterkeeper Alliance's International Director Sharon Khan attended the mercury treaty negotiations in Geneva, Switzerland, and provided 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 V (Read Blog Post I, Blog Post II, Blog Post III, Blog Post IV) On Jan. 19 in Geneva, Switzerland, the text for...
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Nations agree on global, legally binding treaty on mercury emissions: Minamata Convention on Mercury
2013-01-19 17:30:19| Green Car Congress
U.N. clinches global deal on cutting mercury emissions
2013-01-19 09:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: More than 140 countries have reached a deal to cut mercury emissions after all-night talks in Geneva, the U.N. Environment Program (UNEP) said on Saturday. The agreement aimed to phase out many common household products that use the liquid metal, like thermometers and some fluorescent lamps, and reduce emissions from power plants and cement factories, UNEP spokesman Nick Nuttall told Reuters. "A treaty to start to begin to rid the world of a notorious health-hazardous metal was agreed in the...
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