New treaty’s entry into force set to curtail global mercury crisis, say NGOs  

EMBARGOED- UNTIL 15/8/2017, 23:59 PM, Brussels time Brussels / Yerevan 16 August 2017- Today’s entry into force of the Minamata Convention establishes the first new multilateral environmental agreement in over a decade.  The Zero Mercury Working Group* has been calling for a legally binding treaty for over a decade and welcomes the new protocol. “While there are alternatives to mercury,…