UNEP Global Mercury Partnership aims to protect human health and the environment from the releases of mercury to air, water and land.
With over 300 partners from governments, IGOs, NGOs, industry and academia, the Partnership focuses on supporting timely and effective implementation of the Minamata Convention on Mercury, providing state of the art knowledge and science, and raising awareness towards global action on mercury.
Mercury danger hides in daily products such as face creams and batteries;
it travels in the air we breathe, the water we drink; it accumulates in the fish we eat.
Mercury poisoning effects are devastating and can be permanent. Children, pregnant women and fetuses are the most vulnerable, mercury incapacitates and disform their bodies. It attacks the brain, the kidneys, the skin.
Preventing man-made mercury pollution is the best path, in every industry sector.
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The overall goal of the UNEP Global Mercury Partnership is to protect human health and the environment from the releases of mercury.