Mercury treaty must reduce global emissions
Controversy grows over proposed name, Minamata Convention The health of current and future generations depends on an international mercury treaty that will ensure substantial...
A new study shows that high mercury concentrations are present in fish and human hair from all over the world
Today, an international network of non-governmental organisations, IPEN, published a study which focuses upon the contamination of certain regions of our planet by toxic mercury....
Will the international convention help in preventing Elbe and Ohre rivers from mercury contamination?
Internationally significant places polluted with toxic mercury are present also in the Czech Republic Representatives of nearly two hundred countries will be discussing how to...
Czech bream wins – at least in the concentration of mercury in blood. And it lives in the Elbe under Spolana
MĚLNÍK – In two of eight samples of carp bream the maximum permitted concentration of mercury in fish in the European Union was exceeded. One of them even takes first place in...
Spolana wants to use toxic mercury in chlorine production for another six years
Spolana Neratovice has made a request for extending the life of the outdated technology that uses considerable amount of mercury. Despite the fact that Spolana should have...
New Mercury Treaty negotiations heading towards losing the right to be called the “Minamata Convention”
Current text released at the 4 th meeting for a global, legally binding treaty on mercury, underway in Punta del Este, Uruguay, refrains from requiring obligatory action to clean...
Public informational center on chemical safety and waste in Minsk was opened by CES and Arnika
Public informational center on chemical safety and waste issues created in Minsk – stated in the press-conference held on 20 th of December 2011.
UN Delegates Struggle with the True Cost of Mercury
Delegates from more than 120 countries in the recently-held third meeting of an intergovernmental negotiating committee (INC3) struggled to move forward on a global mercury...
Law court has defended citizens and cancelled permission for skyscrapers on Pankrác
The Prague Municipal Court has cancelled a planning permission for two skyscrapers Epoque on Prague Pancrác Plain. This decision means a fundamental turn in citizens' protests...
European Commission has agreed with Czech non-governmental organizations
The government of the Czech Republic should quickly complete a national list of localities with European significance in the network Natura 2000. European Commission asked the...
Poor water management in Prague increases the risk of both flooding and droughts
Water management in the capital does not correspond with the world trends. We are missing efficient measures to hold and use rain water, drinking water is unnecessarily wasted...
International Conference to discuss problems related to contamination by toxic pollutants and pesticides in Armenia
On 31 May 2011, the Toxics and Waste Programme of the Arnika Association and the Armenian Women for Health and Healthy Environment NGO (AWHHE) in partnership with the OSCE Office...
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