National Inventory of Mercury Releases in Suriname 2019

NIMOS on behalf of the government of Suriname made this inventory based on the decision taken by the government to become party to the Minamata Convention. This decision was approved in the National Assemblée of the 8th of March 2018 This inventory was developed in 2018. Data for the year 2015 have been used in the inventory, when available. For some data types, more recent data or year averages were used. The year for all data given is noted with the data in question in the relevant sections of this report. This mercury release inventory was made with the use of the “Toolkit for identification and quantification of mercury releases” made available by the Chemicals Branch of the United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment Chemicals).