联合国文件/第901部分 (共1000部分)

Acknowledges the data and information gaps identified in the United Nations Environment Programme Interim Scientific Reviews on Lead and Cadmium and that further action is needed to fill those data and information gaps, taking into account the specific situation of developing countries and countries with economies in transition;

Encourages efforts by Governments and others to reduce risks to human health and the environment of lead and cadmium throughout the whole life cycle of those substances;

Requests the Executive Director to provide available information on lead and cadmium to address the data and information gaps identified in the Interim Reviews and to compile an inventory of existing risk management measures;

Mercury

Acknowledges the progress made within the United Nations Environment Programme mercury programme since 2005, including the establishment of and progress made under partnerships and other initiatives;

Recognizes that current efforts to reduce risks from mercury are not sufficient to address the global challenges posed by mercury;

Concludes, therefore, that further long-term international action is required to reduce risks to human health and the environment and that, for this reason, the options of enhanced voluntary measures and new or existing international legal instruments will be reviewed and assessed in order to make progress in addressing this issue;

Recognizes that a range of activities are required to address the challenges posed by mercury, including substitution of products and technologies; technical assistance and capacity-building; development of national policy and regulation; data collection, research and information provision, bearing in mind the need to provide assistance to developing countries and countries with economies in transition;

Commits to increased efforts to address the global challenges to reduce risks from releases of mercury, taking into account the following priorities:

(a) To reduce atmospheric mercury emissions from human sources;

(b) To find environmentally sound solutions for the management of waste containing mercury and mercury compounds;

(c) To reduce global mercury demand related to use in products and production processes;

(d) To reduce the global mercury supply, including considering curbing primary mining and taking into account a hierarchy of sources;

(e) To find environmentally sound storage solutions for mercury;

(f) To address, considering the results of the analysis referred to in paragraph 24 (d) below, the remediation of existing contaminated sites affecting public and environmental health;

(g) To increase knowledge on areas such as inventories, human and environmental exposure, environmental monitoring and socio-economic impacts;

Urges Governments to gather information on means to reduce risk that may be caused by the supply of mercury, considering:

(a) Reduced reliance on primary mercury mining in favor of environmentally preferable sources of mercury such as recycled mercury;

(b) Options and solutions for the long-term storage of mercury;

(c) Regional activities to improve data on imports and exports of mercury and enforcement of customs control through, for example, the Green Customs initiative;

(d) The market and socio-economic effects of the activities contemplated above;

Urges Governments to provide the information referred to in the preceding paragraph to the Executive Director;

Also urges Governments to develop and analyse options for addressing the trade and supply of mercury, including considering environmentally sound storage and curbing primary mining, drawing on the United Nations Environment Programme report on mercury supply, trade, and demand, and requests the United Nations Environment Programme, upon request, to assist developing countries in this undertaking through the provision of technical assistance;

Further urges Governments to provide the information referred to in the preceding paragraph to the Executive Director;