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NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL ACTION PLAN ON MERCURY
Citation:
Barnwell Jr., T O. NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL ACTION PLAN ON MERCURY. Presented at American Chemical Society, Anaheim, CA, March 21-24, 1999.
Description:
The North American Regional Action Plan (NARAP) on Mercury is one of a number of action plans that stem from the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation between the governments of Canada, Mexico and the United States. That Agreement established the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), which agreed to Resolution #95-5 on the Sound Management of Chemicals in 1995, which calls for the development of regional action plans for selected PBTs to address national and regional concerns. The objective of this action plan is to reduce anthropogenic sources of mercury through a program of capacity-building, pollution prevention and development of a cooperative scientific agenda. The NARAP also includes the expansion, to a North American scale, of some of the Canadian and US challenges contained in the Great Lakes Binational Toxics Strategy. The complete NARAP is available at www.cec.org.