Protocol on Heavy Metals

<p>The Protocol on Heavy Metals, a protocol to the <a href="/facts/Convention_on_Long-Range_Transboundary_Air_Pollution/a45M3CJ5">Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution</a>, was adopted in <a href="/facts/Aarhus/1YzrHzrX">Aarhus</a>, <a href="/facts/Denmark/KVtykzsw">Denmark</a>, in 1998. As of 2004, it had 36 signatories. As of 2016, it had 35 signatories and 33 parties, with no country having become a signatory since 1998. The protocol addresses the reduction of <a href="/facts/Cadmium/wXkV2eIX">cadmium</a>, <a href="/facts/Lead/EYljasJN">lead</a> and <a href="/facts/Mercury_(element)/WlxfoHva">mercury</a> emissions in the interests of <a href="/facts/Environmental_protection/HoD7nCUq">environmental protection</a>. Amendments to the Protocol were agreed in 2012 to introduce more stringent emission limits but are not yet in force.
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Bibliography
<ul><li>Hulme, Karen (January 2004). <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=hKoXIleS8g4C&pg=PA233"><i>War Torn Environment: Interpreting The Legal Threshold</i></a>. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 90-04-13848-X.</li></ul>

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Protocol on Heavy Metals