This report, prepared for the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) of North America, explores key issues that should be taken into account when considering a multipollutant emissions trading regime that embraces all three NAFTA countries. Consideration of a NAFTA-wide emissions trading system as an environmental policy option is largely in response to the changing dynamics in the North American electricity sector, which have the potential to pose significant air quality and climate change challenges.
The purpose of this paper is to identify some key issues pertaining to the changing electricity sector and the environment. It has been prepared by the Secretariat of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC). Given the breadth and complexity of issues related to electricity and the environment, this working paper highlights some of the main […]
Mexico’s enormous opportunities for making use of renewable energy are limited by the relatively high costs involved and the government’s budgetary restrictions. International experience demonstrates, however, that it is possible to establish mechanisms that, if advanced by the government as public policy and without implying subsidies that would create new burdens on national public funds, […]
Is the environment we have now better than it was in the past, or have things gotten worse? Are we better off than our parents? Why have things changed? Do we really know? Can we know? What will the future look like? Will present trends continue? What will be the quality of air, water, sea, land and the biosphere as a whole for our children and grandchildren? Will the biodiversity of this continent be richer or poorer? Will our climate be the same or will it change?
The North American Mosaic has four overarching features. First, it is, to the extent feasible, based on comparable information on the status and trends of major indicators of thestate of the environment in Canada, Mexico, and the United States.
The purpose of this report is to identify potential investment opportunities arising from possible carbon offset projects in Mexico.
Today, more people, commodities and products, more ideas and images, more genes and microbes, will move around the planet than at any other time in human history.
Like many other countries, Mexico is embroiled in an intense process of discussion to carry out a reform of its electric sector. The purpose of the exercise is to allow increasing participation of the private sector in the generation, transmission and distribution of electrical power.
Probably no other species in North America better illustrates the challenges of nature conservation and sustainable development, among and within countries, than the monarch butterfly. The importance of international cooperation for achieving conservation of the remarkable migration phenomenon has been highlighted in 1981 by R. Pyle (1984). In his concluding remarks at the First International […]
Flying within and among the nations of North America, migratory birds see no boundaries. They have surged northward and southward each year, long before humans populated the Americas and borders were created. These migratory species, many of them threatened or endangered, forge a fundamental ecological link between Canada, Mexico and the United States, providing a […]
The purpose of this study is to consider the environmental implications of expanded North American trade and investment under NAFTA by implementing a general framework developed by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation’s (CEC) NAFTA Effects Project. The scope of the study is sectoral, focusing on the generation of electricity by private and publicly owned entities […]
