Integrating Knowledge to Inform Mercury Policy

整合知识为汞政策提供信息

• 批准号: NE/G001219/1
• 负责人: David Pyle
• 金额: $ 31.94万
• 依托单位: University of Oxford
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2008 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FG001219%2F1
• 关键词: Integrating; Knowledge; Inform; Mercury; Policy

Mercury is found in many consumer products, including LCD screens and energy-efficient lightbulbs. It is emitted to the environment when products containing mercury are disposed of, as well as from industrial processes such as coal fired power plants. Mercury can, however, be a human health hazard; particularly as it has a tendency to accumulate in fish. Consequently, the UK together with it's European neighbours has been for a number of years trying to find ways of reducing the amount of mercury in the environment. Within the next three years a total ban on mercury in consumer products will be introduced to further curtail the amount of mercury entering the global environment. Mercury is also emitted into the environment from a number of natural sources such as volcanoes, but there are significant uncertainties as to the relative contribution of these natural sources versus industrial processes and consumer products. We will only be able to confirm with reasonable confidence whether the above European Union policies have had the impact intended once we fully understand the contribution of both man-made and natural sources of mercury. We wish to establish a knowledge transfer network to bring academic institutes, industry and government together to address some of these questions. This will be done by means of workshops, reports and a website. By bringing together these three sectors, the Initiative will provide government with the opportunity to explicitly request information from academia and industry which will help to guide and formulate future mercury policy. Only through mutually beneficial interaction will be able to successfully develop and implement policy which will reduce the risk from mercury in the environment.

许多消费品中都含有汞，包括液晶显示屏和节能灯泡。当含汞产品被处理时，以及燃煤发电厂等工业过程中，汞会排放到环境中。然而，汞可能危害人类健康；特别是因为它有在鱼体内积累的趋势。因此，英国及其欧洲邻国多年来一直在努力寻找减少环境中汞含量的方法。未来三年内，将全面禁止消费产品中的汞，以进一步减少进入全球环境的汞量。汞也从火山等许多自然资源排放到环境中，但这些自然资源相对于工业过程和消费品的相对贡献存在很大的不确定性。只有在我们充分了解人造汞和天然汞来源的贡献后，我们才能以合理的信心确认上述欧盟政策是否产生了预期的影响。我们希望建立一个知识转移网络，将学术机构、行业和政府聚集在一起解决其中一些问题。这将通过研讨会、报告和网站来完成。通过将这三个部门结合起来，该倡议将为政府提供明确要求学术界和工业界提供信息的机会，这将有助于指导和制定未来的汞政策。只有通过互利互动，才能成功制定和实施减少环境中汞风险的政策。

项目成果

Major and trace element distributions around active volcanic vents determined by analyses of grasses: implications for element cycling and bio-monitoring

通过草分析确定活火山口周围的主要和微量元素分布：对元素循环和生物监测的影响

• DOI: 10.1007/s00445-010-0374-7
• 发表时间: 2010
• 期刊: Bulletin of Volcanology
• 影响因子: 3.5
• 作者: Martin R