RT null T1 Summary of the Final Report - “National Emissions Inventory of Mercury in Panama” A1 United Nations Environment Programme, A1 Panama, K1 mercury YR 2009 FD 2009 LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/11384 UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/11384 NO According to several reports, including the Global Mercury Assessment (GMA) developed by the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) in 2002, levels of mercury in the environment have increased considerably from the beginning of the industrial era. It has been determined with great exactitude, that mercury is a persistent and accumulative pollutant, which enters trophic levels of food chain in a well-known dangerous form known as methylmercury. Mercury contamination has global character and circulates around the planet, affecting as distant places as the Arctic. NO https://www.unep.org/chemicalsandwaste/Portals/9/Mercury/A_Inventories/PANAMA%20Hg%20Inventory_%20SUMMARY%20English%20Mar%202009.pdf DS UN Environment Document Repository RD Sep 16, 2026