Chemicals, if not managed properly, can endanger human health, lives and severely damage the environment. Zoï addresses chemical issues on the one hand in global or regional visual packages, such as ‘Vital Waste Graphics’, in addition we are very active in environmental and social issues concerning mining industry.
Zoï Environment assesses environmental issues arising from minerals mining and processing. Among the many Mining & Environment related projects throughout the former Soviet Union and the Balkans, we have conducted several technical and economic assessments for a mining site in Kyrgyzstan, home to the world’s last known exporting mercury mine. Zoï Environment examines risks for environmental pollution, emission sources and screens contamination levels with the help of local and international laboratories. Zoï Environment also organizes expert missions with renowned technical and environmental experts in the field to examine the local situation and to develop remediation concepts for the sites.
Video clip: Mining and Environment in the Western Balkans
Zoï Books are produced for the United Nations, the European Union, regions and countries and a growing community of readers world-wide. We closely cooperate with GRID-Arendal in providing environmental information for decision-making.
A solid appreciation of commercial mercury trade is a vital foundation upon which governments can build effective strategies and promote specific measures to address national and global mercury challenges.
There is now only one known mercury mine in the world which continues to sell its output abroad: Khaidarkan, in the remote mountains of southern Kyrgyzstan.
Design, maps, graphics and layout by Zoï Environment Network.
Poster presented at the "International Conference on mercury as a global polluant", July 2001.
Over the last few years UNEP and its ENVSEC partners have been working to identify and reduce transboundary environmental risks from hazardous mining operations in South Eastern Europe, with the focus on Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo, Montenegro and Serbia. This document seeks to provide an overview of the results and experience created over this period to facilitate related work in the future and ensure broad dissemination of the lessons learned to guarantee that the efforts made so far can be sustained.
A Resource Kit for journalists, which provides the essential visuals, facts, links and contacts to develop ozone story ideas. This publication is intended to serve as an interesting reference for those who wish to learn more about the Montreal Protocol and ozone layer depletion.
This book depicts the world’s last known exporting mercury mine – at Khaidarkan in southern Kyrgyzstan. For two years, Zoï assisted the Government of Kyrgyzstan and national and local stakeholders to consider options regarding the future of the mine.
Introduction of Best Practice in mining site rehabilitation based on case studies and policy examples from around the world. 'Greening the dumps best practices' is in Russian and was presented at the conference ‘Rehabilitation of industrial land’, on 10 October, 2008 in Donetsk, Ukraine.
This publication of the Environment and Security Initiative (ENVSEC) aims to present a basis for action within South Eastern Europe and within the Tisza River Basin towards the development of corporate practice, regulatory frameworks, governance guidelines and/or financial and insurance markets suitable for the support of a modern mining industry.
