Rarotonga Tokyo 3 January 2013 Introduction In 2009, the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP GC) decided to develop a global legally binding instrument on mercury to reduce risks to human health and the environment (UNEP GC25/5). The UNEP GC noted that mercury is a substance of global concern due to its long-range transport, persistence, ability to bioaccumulate...

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rooms the misery of human suffering. When conflicts are over, the news usually concentrates on reconstruction issues. However, the legacy of conflicts might also include longer-term security threats, such as environmental degradation, damaged infrastructure, and conflict related risks to human health. Because of poor environmental administration in postconflict countries, environmental and heal...

According to UNEP and FAO reports, the fishing nets abandoned in seas around world represent approximately 10% of plastic waste present oceans. These nets, also called ghost can be degraded over time, releasing microplastics contaminating environment. Studying presence amount an area impacted by Gulf Cefalù, northern coast Sicily, Italy help understand level contamination these zones. The plann...

We present a detailed response to the critique of "State of the Science of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals 2012" (UNEP/WHO, 2013) by financial stakeholders, authored by Lamb et al. (2014). Lamb et al.'s claim that UNEP/WHO (2013) does not provide a balanced perspective on endocrine disruption is based on incomplete and misleading quoting of the report through omission of qualifying statements an...