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

"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 Enviro...

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Corporate Authors: UNEP Chemicals (sponsoring body.), Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (sponsoring body.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Nairobi, Kenya : United Nations Environment Programme, [2013]
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505 0 |a 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. 
520 |a "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. 
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