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Minamata Convention ratification
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- The Union Cabinet has approved the proposal for ratification of Minamata Convention on Mercury and depositing the instrument of ratification, enabling India to become a Party of the Convention.
- India signed the Minamata Convention on Mercury on September 30, 2014.
- The Convention gives 5 years’ time to India to control and reduce emissions from new power plants and 10 years’ time for the already existing power plants.
- The Minamata Convention on Mercury is a global treaty framed to protect human health and the environment from the adverse effects of mercury.
- The objective of the convention’s implementation to protect human health and environment from the anthropogenic emissions and releases of mercury and mercury compounds.
- It came into being on January 19, 2013.
- The convention is named after the Japanese city Minamata as the city facing a devastating incident of mercury poisoning because of deadly mercury contamination since 1950.
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