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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Nairobi, Kenya :
United Nations Environment Programme,
[2013]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.