{"id":17319,"date":"2013-09-20T14:16:38","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T18:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/?page_id=17319"},"modified":"2013-11-26T17:42:58","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T22:42:58","slug":"iib-28","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/iib-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Issues in Brief, No. 28, October 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"\/pardee\/files\/2013\/09\/Pardee-IIB-028-Oct-2013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pardee\/files\/2013\/09\/Pardee-IIB-028-Oct-2013-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"Pardee-IIB-028-Oct-2013\" title=\"Pardee-IIB-028-Oct-2013\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17321 alignright\" height=\"300\" width=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/files\/2013\/09\/Pardee-IIB-028-Oct-2013-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/files\/2013\/09\/Pardee-IIB-028-Oct-2013-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/files\/2013\/09\/Pardee-IIB-028-Oct-2013.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a>The Minamata Convention and the Future of Mercury Abatement<\/h3>\n<p>By Henrik Selin<br \/>\nOctober 2013 (8 Pages)<br \/>\n<a target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d \"href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/files\/2013\/09\/Pardee-IIB-028-Oct-2013.pdf?PDF=iib-28\">Download PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In this <em>Issues in Brief<\/em>, Pardee Faculty Fellow Henrik Selin examines the new Minamata Convention on Mercury, a global agreement intended to \u201cprotect human health and the environment from anthropogenic emissions and releases of mercury and mercury compounds.\u201d Selin argues that the new convention is \u201cmore legally and politically important than environmentally significant.\u201d\u00a0 To achieve truly meaningful reductions in mercury releases to the environment and threats to human health, he says collaborative measures must be enacted across global, regional, national, and local scales of governance, with support from inter-governmental organizations, non-governmental organizations and industry associations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/community\/henrik-selin\/\">Henrik Selin<\/a> is a Pardee Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor of International Relations at Boston University. He conducts research and teaches classes on global and regional politics and policymaking on environment and sustainable development. He is the author of more than 40 academic journal articles, books, and book chapters on global environmental governance and policy issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minamata Convention and the Future of Mercury Abatement By Henrik Selin October 2013 (8 Pages) Download PDF In this Issues in Brief, Pardee Faculty Fellow Henrik Selin examines the new Minamata Convention on Mercury, a global agreement intended to \u201cprotect human health and the environment from anthropogenic emissions and releases of mercury and mercury [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5790,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":124,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5790"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17319"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17978,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17319\/revisions\/17978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}