Partnering for a World Free of Mercury

摘要

A number of mercury-containing consumer products will disappear from store shelves over the next seven years, as mandated by a first-ever global convention on mercury. The text of the treaty, which 147 member countries of the United Nations agreed to in January 2013, will be formally signed in October. The treaty recognizes the growing threat that mercury pollution poses to human health, and it requires its signers to curb mercury emissions from all industrial activity, particularly coal mining and burning, as well as mining for gold.