IKIMP has today released a report on Mercury arising from oil and gas production in the United Kingdom and UK continental shelf which is now avialable for download.
Chemistry World News, 23 December 2011 The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced its long-awaited standards to limit mercury, lead and other toxic pollutants emitted by power
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Nairobi, 3 November 2011 – Representatives from 120 governments gathered at the headquarters of the United Nations Environment Programmed (UNEP) in Nairobi for negotiations towards a global treaty
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June 11th, 2010
On the final day of the first negotiating meeting of the UNEP INC, 11 June 2010, it has been announced that the new instrument currently under construction with the explicit aim and reducing or eliminating global use of mercury has been named the Minamata Convention.
June 10th, 2010
Dr John Holmes presented IKIMP’s ‘Decision Making Framework’ for redundant elemental mercury at the UNEP International Negotiating Committee 1 meeting in Stockholm recently. Currently the member states are meeting in Stockholm to begin the negotiation of a legally binding instrument to limit the global use of mercury.
Prof David Pyle
Dr Murray Gardner
Dr John Holmes, Dr Mel Witt,
Dr Tamsin Mather,
Dr Mike Roberts (Defra),
Dr Lesley Sloss (IEA CCC),
Dr Warren Corns (PS Analytical)
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