Planetek Italia is an Italian company, established in 1994, which employs 50 men and women, passionate and skilled in Geoinformatics, Space solutions, and Earth science. The Global Observation System for Mercury (GOS4M) Knowledge Hub (GOS4M KH) is a component of the GEOSS Knowledge Hub and as such is a service co-designed with policy makers to support governments and all interested parties in the assessment of the effectiveness of measures adopted at any geographical scale to achieve the goals of the MCM. The GOS4M KH allows end-users to co-design various socio-economic scenarios of mercury emission reductions for targeted anthropogenic sources, assess the predicted environmental recovery of terrestrial and marine ecosystems, and estimate the economic costs associated with adopted reduction strategies. To facilitate the access and use of the GOS4M KH by end-users a Virtual Laboratory (VL) is under development. The VL is designed to emulate long-term environmental processes by pre-processing a large amount of output data sets provided by processes-driven modeles that estimate the deposition fluxes of mercury to terrestrial ecosystems and oceans, mercury bioaccumulated in fish and other biological endpoints. The VL will provide the possibility of generating the costs’ curves for each reduction emission scenarios analysed and assess the associated benefits for human health and ecosystems.
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