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From: Elena Lymberidi <elena.lymberidi@...>
Date: 2009/2/20
Subject: [ipen__hg--wg] [Fwd: PRESS RELEASE: HUGE ENVIRONMENTAL VICTORY!
World governments support breakthrough agreement on mercury]
To: ZeroMercuryWorkingGroup <zeromercury@...>, Ipen Hg wg <
ipen__hg--wg@...>


-------- Original Message -------- Subject: PRESS RELEASE: HUGE
ENVIRONMENTAL VICTORY! World governments support breakthrough agreement on
mercury Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:12:26 +0100 From: EEB Press Officer
<press@...> <press@...> To: Elena Lymberidi
<elena.lymberidi@...> <elena.lymberidi@...>

*[Nairobi, Kenya 20 February 2009] *– Defying expectations, world
environmental
ministers agreed today to begin negotiating a treaty to control global
mercury pollution.
The decision represents the consensus of the more than 140 countries
gathered here for
the 25th UNEP Governing Council meeting.

“This consensus is a huge breakthrough,” said Elena Lymberidi – Settimo of
the
European Environmental Bureau and the Zero Mercury Working Group. “The
treaty will
ensure that the EU and other countries of the world make a serious
commitment to
reduce global mercury emissions, supply and demand.”

The treaty will include actions to reduce mercury supply, its use in
products and
processes, and atmospheric mercury emissions, which will ultimately reduce
human
exposure to mercury globally. The preparations for negotiations on the
global treaty will
start later this year, with discussions beginning in earnest in 2010 with a
view to
wrapping up by 2013.

‘Developing a treaty is a critical first step towards solving the global
mercury crisis’, said
Michael Bender of the Zero Mercury Working Group.

The agreement was made possible by a dramatic shift in the U.S. position by
the Obama
administration, which now supports the creation of a legally binding
agreement.

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*For further information contact:*
Elena Lymberidi-Settimo, Project Coordinator, Zero Mercury Campaign,
European Environmental Bureau: *elena.lymberidi@...;*
Tel: +32 2289 1301; Mobile in Nairobi: +254 716 803265, Mobile (Belgium) +32
496 532 818

Vanessa Bulkacz, EEB Press & Publications Officer: *press@...*; Tel: +32
2289 1309

Michael Bender, *mercurypolicy@...*, +1 802 223 9000

*For the complete press release see attached or go to*
*http://www.eeb.org/press/2009/090220UNEP_NGO_PR_Mercury_Decision-final.pdf*

*For the final draft agreement text go to*
*
http://www.eeb.org/activities/chemicals/Chemicals_management_including_mercury
-
COWdraft190209.pdf*

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Vanessa Bulkacz
Press and Publications Officer
European Environmental Bureau (EEB)
34 Blvd de Waterloo
Brussels B-1000
BELGIUM
www.eeb.orgpress@...

Tel +32 2289 1309

EEB is Europe's largest federation of environmental citizens'
organisations with over 150 member organisations throughout Europe.




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Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
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