{"id":6633,"date":"2017-10-16T03:45:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T03:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/historic-milestone-reached-in-global-fight-against-mercury-pollution\/"},"modified":"2017-10-16T03:45:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T03:45:26","slug":"historic-milestone-reached-in-global-fight-against-mercury-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/historic-milestone-reached-in-global-fight-against-mercury-pollution\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic milestone reached in global fight against mercury pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"53.455428373222\">\n<article data-post-type=\"post\" data-post-id=\"442666\" readability=\"52\">\n<div id=\"attachment_442674\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Mercury-Pollution.jpg?resize=1280%2C720&#038;ssl=1\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/plugins\/ventra-lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif?ssl=1\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Mercury-Pollution.jpg 1280w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Mercury-Pollution-640x360.jpg 640w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Mercury-Pollution-1062x598.jpg 1062w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Mercury-Pollution-320x180.jpg 320w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Mercury-Pollution-281x158.jpg 281w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Mercury-Pollution-562x316.jpg 562w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Mercury-Pollution-531x299.jpg 531w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Mercury-Pollution-487x274.jpg 487w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Mercury-Pollution-974x548.jpg 974w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Mercury-Pollution-600x338.jpg 600w\" class=\"size-full wp-image-442674 lazyload\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/><noscript><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-442674 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Mercury-Pollution.jpg?resize=1280%2C720&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Mercury-Pollution.jpg 1280w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Mercury-Pollution-640x360.jpg 640w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Mercury-Pollution-1062x598.jpg 1062w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Mercury-Pollution-320x180.jpg 320w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Mercury-Pollution-281x158.jpg 281w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Mercury-Pollution-562x316.jpg 562w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Mercury-Pollution-531x299.jpg 531w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Mercury-Pollution-487x274.jpg 487w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Mercury-Pollution-974x548.jpg 974w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Mercury-Pollution-600x338.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mercury Pollution<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In a landmark display of international cooperation, more than 160 countries committed to tackling one of the world\u2019s greatest chemical health threats at the first meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury.<\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s first environmental and health treaty in a decade saw many countries pledge political and financial support to help reduce and eliminate mercury, a heavy metal affecting the health of millions of people worldwide from Guyana and Kiribati, to Uganda and Japan.<\/p>\n<p>In her opening speech, the President of the Swiss Confederation, Doris Leuthard, described the Minamata Convention as a success of multilateralism, \u201cThe Minamata Convention is a global solution to a global challenge. From now on the name Minamata will no longer only be associated with a problem, but with a solution,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Opening the high-level segment, Erik Solheim Head of UN Environment said that in order to really address the mercury challenge solutions had to be integrated into public health and environmental strategies at all levels \u2013 from local to international \u2013 and embodied into the wider pollution control agenda. He called on ministers and delegates to use the tragic legacy of Minamata to propel the convention forward.<\/p>\n<p>A high level panel debate opened by the President of Guyana featuring the Head of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Naoko Ishii, Erik Solheim, the Head of the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation, the Head of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research, and representatives from the United Nations Development Programme also drew attention to mercury use in Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining which accounts for up to 20% of the world\u2019s gold supply.<\/p>\n<p>Through the Global Opportunities for Long-term Development (GEF GOLD) programme, the GEF will provide funds to eight countries with a sizable gold mining sector, and where many artisanal miners still rely on mercury for gold extraction. The <a href=\"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/get-quick-loan-for-real-estate-investment\/\">funding<\/a> amounts to US$45.2 million and will be managed by implementing agencies, including UN Environment to support policies and market incentives that favour gold which uses less or no mercury in its extraction.<\/p>\n<p>Several guidelines were adopted, in particular for the regulation of artisanal gold-mining and the reduction of mercury emissions in this sector. The States will receive support to enable them to gain a better understanding of the informal artisanal gold-mining sector and to make optimal use of the available state-of-the- art technology. Another guideline specifies how the atmospheric mercury emissions generated by coal-fired power plants, waste incineration plants and cement plants can be reduced.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p>\t\t\t<br class=\"clear\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<br class=\"clear\"\/><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a hre=\"http:\/\/guardian.ng\/property\/historic-milestone-reached-in-global-fight-against-mercury-pollution\/\"> Guardian <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercury Pollution In a landmark display of international cooperation, more than 160 countries committed to tackling &hellip; <a title=\"Historic milestone reached in global fight against mercury pollution\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/historic-milestone-reached-in-global-fight-against-mercury-pollution\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Historic milestone reached in global fight against mercury pollution<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-6633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opportunities-in-new-markets","tag-property"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Mercury-Pollution.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}