Recognizing the value in sharing emissions information, the three environment ministers of North America who comprise the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) Council agreed, in 2001, that their governments would work towards the development of a shared North American emissions inventory for criteria air pollutants and greenhouse gases.
Mercury is a toxic element whose unique properties make it one of the most useful and pervasive substances, and as such, concentrations in places around the world have risen to levels of concern. The Great Lakes is one such place. There have been intensive efforts by many government and international bodies to reduce the use and emission of mercury to the environment.
In this document, there are estimated emissions from power generation in Mexico, based on fuel consumption, as well as emission factors for specific power generation plants, for the years 2001 and 2002.
In an age of international air quality agreements and annexes, the Commission for Environmental Cooperation has identified a need for a state-of-knowledge application of emission inventories for purposes of public outreach, emission trends reporting, fulfilling data requests, control strategy application studies, benefit analyses, and estimating air quality in large regional areas. However, without consistent emission data sets within the domain of study, results of these applications can be speculative, at best. The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) has been working closely with North American federal environmental agencies to try and gather the latest emissions data which can be used to secure these end results.
In this project we evaluated the impact of air pollutants on children’s health in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, focusing on groups that have different living conditions as estimated by their socio-economic status (SES). We studied two major health outcomes, mortality and morbidity, and their relation to ambient air pollutant levels of particulate matter less than 10 µm and ozone.
Five North American Regional Action Plans (DDT, chlordane, PCBs; mercury; and environmental monitoring and assessment) have been developed and are now at various stages of implementation. Two more regional or North American action plans are now under development, one for a cluster of substances-dioxins and furans, and hexachlorobenzene- and a second for lindane.
The Commission for Environmental Cooperation’s (CEC) North American Regional Action Plan on Mercury (NARAP) is intended to assist the governments of Canada, Mexico and the United States in reducing the exposure of North American ecosystems, fish and wildlife and humans to mercury, through the prevention and reduction of anthropogenic releases of mercury to the North […]
This paper explores the important methodological issues related to estimating the net air impacts of specific resources in electric systems. In addition, we describe a number of projects undertaken across North America in which the emissions benefits of new resources—both renewable projects and efficiency programs—have been estimated. Finally, we briefly explore different views of the […]
The production and use of DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) has been eliminated in Canada, Mexico, and the United States under a North American Regional Action Plan (NARAP) negotiated by the three signatory countries to the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC).
Certain persistent, toxic, and bio-accumulative substances released to the environment as a result of human activity are transported long distances through air and water and pose unacceptably high risks to the environment, to ecosystems, to human health and to sustainable development.
Canada, Mexico, and the United States have developed a framework for the environmentally sound management of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in North America.
Lindane is a persistent organic pollutant (POP) that, as of March 2002, remains registered as an insecticide in Canada, Mexico, and the United States.
