DISTRIBUTION: General
J//ADV/02-06/Rev.1
ORIGINAL: English
Private Sector Cooperation and Financing
The Joint Public Advisory Committee (JPAC) of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) of North America:
IN ACCORDANCE with Article 16(4) of the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC), that JPAC “may provide advice to the Council on any matter within the scope of this agreement (…) and on the implementation and further elaboration of this agreement, and may perform such other functions as the Council may direct”;
HAVING PARTICIPATED in the CEC Workshop on Financing and the Environment: Transparency, Disclosure and Environmental Reporting, held on 25 March 2002, in New York City;
UNDERSTANDING that disclosure of financially material information and trinational private sector cooperation are important elements in building partnerships for protecting and enhancing the North American environment;
DRAWING on CEC experience in building partnerships with the private sector in areas such as pollutant release and transfer registers and environmental management systems;
RECOMMENDS the following: