The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) published a report
titled ‘Mercury -Time to act’ a report which
directly addresses the governments involved in development of the global treaty
on mercury. It presents updates from the UNEP Global Mercury Assessment 2013 in
short and punchy facts and figures backed by compelling graphics that provide
governments and civil society with the rationale and the imperative to act on
this notorious pollutant. The report underlines the fact that mercury remains a
major global, regional and national challenge in terms of threats to human
health and the environment, especially but not uniquely to the health of
pregnant woman and babies world-widethrough
the eating of contaminated fish for example or marine mammals in places like
the Arctic.