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Lead and Cadmium Reference List Complementary document to the IFCS Thought Starter, Lead and Cadmium: Need for International Action? Prepared by The Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) On behalf of the Government of Germany/Lead Sponsor 22 February 2008  Note: The Cadmium and Lead Thought Starter examines the question of whether the mobility of lead and cadmium through international trade may warrant coordinated international action to protect human health and the environment. This Reference List includes the authorities and sources cited in the Thought Starter, as well as additional documents that may be of interest to stakeholders, including their internet addresses, where available. Lead and Cadmium Reference List 1979 Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution on Heavy Metals, 13 Nov. 1979, /env/lrtap/full%20text/1979.CLRTAP.e.pdf. Aarhus Protocol on Heavy Metals to the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution, 24 June 1998, /env/lrtap/full%20text/1998.Heavy.Metals.e.pdf. Adams and Chapman, Assessing the Hazard of Metals and Inorganic Metal Substances in Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecosystems, CRC Press, Boca Raton (2006). Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme, AMAP Assessment 2002: Heavy Metals in the Arctic (2004), http://www.amap.no/documents/index.cfm?dirsub=/AMAP%20Assessment%202002%20-%20Heavy%20Metals%20in%20the%20Arctic. Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme, AMAP Assessment 2002: Persistent Organic Pollutants in the Arctic (2004), http://www.amap.no/documents/index.cfm?dirsub=%2FAMAP%20Assessment%202002%20-%20Persistent%20Organic%20Pollutants%20in%20the%20Arctic. Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme, Fact Sheet: Effects of contaminants on Arctic humans and biota (Oct. 2002), http://www.amap.no/documents/index.cfm?action=getfiledirsub=%2FFact%20Sheets%20-%20AMAPfilename=fs-effects.pdfCFID=1413CFTOKEN=F64CBB3A-127E-14CD-543B12F143B1C6E1sort=default. Associated Press, American C