期刊
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
卷 56, 期 5, 页码 2861-2879出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.1c03936
关键词
Mercury; Minamata Convention; ecosystem; economic system; biogeochemical cycle; supply chain; human health; general equilibrium theory
资金
- Program for Guangdong Introducing Innovative and Entrepreneurial Teams [2019ZT08L213]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [71874014, 42077200]
The Minamata Convention on Mercury aims to protect the environment and human beings from the adverse impacts of mercury pollution. Current studies show that mercury emissions can have negative effects on human health and ecosystems, but the feedback of mercury-related environmental impacts to the economic system is not fully understood. This lack of understanding impedes the development of comprehensive mercury control actions, highlighting the need for further research and modeling to loop the mercury cycle in the global environmental-economic system.
The Minamata Convention on Mercury calls for Hg control actions to protect the environment and human beings from the adverse impacts of Hg pollution. It aims at the entire life cycle of Hg. Existing studies on the Hg cycle in the global environmental-economic system have characterized the emission-to-impact pathway of Hg pollution. That is, Hg emissions/releases from the economic system can have adverse impacts on human health and ecosystems. However, current modeling of the Hg cycle is not fully looped. It ignores the feedback of Hg-related environmental impacts (including human health impacts and ecosystem impacts) to the economic system. This would impede the development of more comprehensive Hg control actions. By synthesizing recent information on Hg cycle modeling, this critical review found that Hg-related environmental impacts would have feedbacks to the economic system via the labor force and biodiversity loss. However, the interactions between Hg-related activities in the environmental and economic systems are not completely clear. The cascading effects of Hg-related environmental impacts to the economic system throughout global supply chains have not been revealed. Here, we emphasize the knowledge gaps and propose possible approaches for looping the Hg cycle in global environmental-economic system modeling. This progress is crucial for formulating more dynamic and flexible Hg control measures. It provides new perspectives for the implementation of the Minamata Convention on Mercury.
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