Technical Assessment on Environmental Issues related to Primary Mercury Mining in Kyrgyzstan

This report is part of the overall Kyrgyzstan Primary Mercury Mining Project funded by the Government of Norway, Switzerland and the United States of America and being carried out as a partnership between UNITAR, UNEP, and Zoï Environment Network. Reducing the supply of mercury has been identified as a priority area by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Governing Council, which considers primary mercury mining as an important activity to be addressed in order to reduce global loadings of mercury to the environment in the future. It is considered highly likely there will be global controls in place on mercury within a 10-year time frame.