On 16 November 2001, the CEC Council unanimously instructed the Secretariat to develop a factual record with respect to assertions regarding logging at Sooke River and De Mamiel Creek, two sites in the Sooke watershed on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. These two areas were mentioned in submission SEM-00-004 (BC Logging), filed on 17 March 2000, by five environmental nongovernmental organizations from Canada and the United States.
On 4 October 1997, The Friends of the Oldman River filed a submission (SEM-97-006 (Oldman River II), the “submission”) with the Secretariat asserting that Canada is failing to effectively enforce the fish habitat protection provisions of the federal Fisheries Act and related provisions of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act (“CEAA”).
On 20 October 1998, the Secretariat of the CEC received a submission from Grupo Ecológico “Manglar,” A.C. (Grupo Manglar) in accordance with Article 14 of the NAAEC. The Submission asserts that Mexico is failing to effectively enforce its environmental law with respect to a shrimp farm operated by Granjas Aquanova, S.A. de C.V. (Aquanova) that […]
This report summarizes the state of environmental information disclosure in North America, documents the gap in what is being reported and what the market and regulations demand, and proposes concrete steps by which the environmental agencies and ministries in North America could help the securities agencies narrow this gap. One obvious gap is in enforcement […]
As interest and consumer demand grows for “green” products, and as producers realize increased market share in food products and consumer goods, public procurement, covering all federal and sub-central purchasing of countries throughout the world, is becoming an increasingly important market force. Just one web service, the Recycling Data Network Information Services, lists a recycled-content […]
On 16 November 2001, the CEC Council voted unanimously to instruct the Secretariat to develop a factual record with respect to two specific cases identified in submission SEM-99-002, filed on 19 November 1999 by several environmental nongovernmental organizations from Canada, Mexico and the United States. The first case involves the logging of several hundred trees by a private landowner during the nesting season of great blue herons, allegedly resulting in hundreds of crushed eggs.
This document sets the direction and scope for the North American Wildlife Enforcement Group for the next 5 years.
Los efectos de la liberalización agrícola y comercial impulsadas como eje de la modernización del campo desde 1989 y los compromisos del TLCAN (1994), provocaron el aumento de las importaciones de los granos básicos, cambios en el patrón de cultivos, disminución de la rentabilidad de los productos. La liberalización agrícola ha permitido el fortalecimiento de […]
The focus of this report, and the background papers and analyses on which it draws, is how best to examine the environmental effects of trade on Canada, Mexico and the United States, the three signatories to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
This is the second edition of a report first published by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation of North America (CEC) in the North American Environmental Law and Policy series in 1999. The report was originally commissioned by the CEC Secretariat in support of undertakings made by the CEC Council in October 1995, in a joint […]
In 1997 the governments of Canada, Mexico, and the United States committed to the North American Regional Action Plan on Mercury under the auspices of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC). The Regional Action Plan provides a path forward in domestic and trilateral efforts to reduce the mercury exposure of North American ecosystems, fish and wildlife, and humans through the prevention and reduction of anthropogenic mercury releases. The ultimate goal is to achieve a reduction in releases of mercury through appropriate national and international initiatives.
In 1997 the governments of Canada, Mexico and the United States agreed to a North American Regional Action Plan (NARAP) on mercury, intended to support the domestic and trilateral efforts to reduce the exposure of North American ecosystems, flora and fauna, and especially humans, to mercury. The ultimate goal of this NARAP is to prevent […]
