Environmental Risks and Challenges of Anthropogenic Metals Flows and Cycles - Factsheet
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20132013
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United Nations Environment Programme
International Resource Panel
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RT Generic T1 Environmental Risks and Challenges of Anthropogenic Metals Flows and Cycles - Factsheet A1 United Nations Environment Programme, International Resource Panel YR 2013 , 2013 LK https://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/31490 PB AB TY - GEN T1 - Environmental Risks and Challenges of Anthropogenic Metals Flows and Cycles - Factsheet AU - United Nations Environment Programme, International Resource Panel Y1 - 2013, 2013 UR - https://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/31490 PB - AB - @misc{20.500.11822_31490 author = {United Nations Environment Programme, International Resource Panel}, title = {Environmental Risks and Challenges of Anthropogenic Metals Flows and Cycles - Factsheet}, year = {2013 , 2013}, abstract = {}, url = {https://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/31490} } @misc{20.500.11822_31490 author = {United Nations Environment Programme, International Resource Panel}, title = {Environmental Risks and Challenges of Anthropogenic Metals Flows and Cycles - Factsheet}, year = {2013 , 2013}, abstract = {}, url = {https://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/31490} } TY - GEN T1 - Environmental Risks and Challenges of Anthropogenic Metals Flows and Cycles - Factsheet AU - United Nations Environment ProgrammeUnited Nations Environment Programme, International Resource Panel UR - https://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/31490 PB - AB -Item Statistics
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The unique properties of metals make them essential for many applications and future global demand is predicted to increase. Given this relevance the report of UNEP’s International Resource Panel on “Environmental Risks and Challenges of Anthropogenic Metals Flows and Cycles” focuses on the environmental impacts related to metals and means of reducing these impacts. It confirms that anthropogenic metal cycles can have orders of magnitude larger than natural metal cycles. Emissions to the environment, however, are roughly of the same order of magnitude as natural emissions. Nevertheless, the global primary production of metals shows a large share of the world’s energy use and causes severe local environmental impacts.
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