The Protocol on Heavy Metals, a protocol to the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution, was adopted in Aarhus, Denmark, in 1998. As of 2004, it had 36 signatories. [1] As of 2016, it had 35 signatories and 33 parties, with no country having become a signatory since 1998. [2] The protocol addresses the reduction of cadmium, lead and mercury emissions in the interests of environmental protection. [3] Amendments to the Protocol were agreed in 2012 [4] to introduce more stringent emission limits [5] but are not yet in force.
References
- ^ Hulme 2004, p. 223.
- ^ United Nations Treaty Collection, status of Protocol on Heavy Metals.
- ^ "Protocol on Heavy Metals". UNECE. Retrieved 10 August 2014.
- ^ Decision 2012/5.
- ^ UNECE press release, 19 Dec 2012.
- Bibliography
- Hulme, Karen (January 2004). War Torn Environment: Interpreting The Legal Threshold. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. ISBN 90-04-13848-X.
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