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Final session on international mercury convention this week expected to culminate in agreement; UNEP Global Mercury Assessment 2013 finds industrial source Hg emissions may be rising

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UNEP produced its first Global Mercury Assessment in 2002 and a subsequent study in 2007. INC5 comes several days after UNEP released a new assessment showing that communities in developing countries are facing increasing health and environmental risks linked to exposure to mercury.

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