UN Environment in close collaboration with Italian National Research Council - Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research (CNR-IIA) and WHO implemented a UN Environment - Global Environmental Facility (GEF) project entitled "Develop a plan for global monitoring of Human exposure to and environmental concentration of Mercury", from late 2014. The project contributes to scientific knowledge for development of effectiveness evaluation mechanism. The main aim of the project was to harmonize approaches for mercury monitoring and to strengthen the capacity for mercury analyses in humans and in the environment. The experience made within the project suggests that there is a urgent need to coordinate the global efforts in atmospheric mercury monitoring by integrating existing monitoring programs worldwide in cooperation with other on-going programs such as GEO (Group on Earth Observation, www.earthobservations.org) and specifically with the GEO Flagship "Global Observation System for Mercury (GOS4M)" which is aimed to support the policy process in relation to the Minamata Convention implementation. The poster gives an overview of preliminary results coming from the pilot survey campaigns carried out with mercury novel passive sampling.
Atmospheric mercury assessment: a contribution to global monitoring and effectiveness evaluation within the Minamata Convention
A Fino;F Sprovieri;A Macagnano;E Zampetti;P Papa;G Esposito;
2018
Abstract
UN Environment in close collaboration with Italian National Research Council - Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research (CNR-IIA) and WHO implemented a UN Environment - Global Environmental Facility (GEF) project entitled "Develop a plan for global monitoring of Human exposure to and environmental concentration of Mercury", from late 2014. The project contributes to scientific knowledge for development of effectiveness evaluation mechanism. The main aim of the project was to harmonize approaches for mercury monitoring and to strengthen the capacity for mercury analyses in humans and in the environment. The experience made within the project suggests that there is a urgent need to coordinate the global efforts in atmospheric mercury monitoring by integrating existing monitoring programs worldwide in cooperation with other on-going programs such as GEO (Group on Earth Observation, www.earthobservations.org) and specifically with the GEO Flagship "Global Observation System for Mercury (GOS4M)" which is aimed to support the policy process in relation to the Minamata Convention implementation. The poster gives an overview of preliminary results coming from the pilot survey campaigns carried out with mercury novel passive sampling.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
