Mercury inventory toolkit The «Toolkit for identification and quantification of mercury releases», the «Toolkit», is intended to assist countries to develop a national mercury releases inventory. It provides a standardized methodology and accompanying database enabling the development of consistent national and regional mercury inventories. National inventories will assist countries to identify and address mercury releases.[…]
UNEP’S ACTIVITIES ON MERCURY TECHNOLOGY AND METALS Cadmium+ Lead+ Mercury Mercury is a chemical element that is harmful to human health and the environment. Many types of human activities have the potential to create mercury pollution. UNEP is working with governments and other stakeholders to reduce mercury pollution and its negative impacts. UNEP’s key activities[…]
Process Optimization Guidance (POG) for Reducing Mercury Emissions from Coal Combustion in Power Plants (report and software) The POG is a tool that has been developed to help determine appropriate approaches to control mercury emissions in individual coal fired power plants. Though the POG has been developed for coal fired power plants, it is generally also applicable to large industrial coal-fired[…]