This Strategy for addressing DLCs and HCB provides documentation describing how the three governments will cooperate in implementing their obligations and commitments established in CEC Council Resolutions 95-05, 99-01, 06-09 and 08-06. This Strategy catalyzes current activities by the Parties under their respective domestic programs, as well as commitments, as appropriate, under the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and other international agreements.
Human exposure to persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and certain toxic metals in our environment is a matter of serious concern because of their potential for causing deleterious effects on our health. An assessment of the degree of pollutant exposure in different sections of the three North American countries is thus of great importance. As women […]
The purpose of this market report is to collect and analyze available information from Mexico in order to describe supply, demand, trade, market characteristics, and trends of elemental mercury and mercurycontaining products in commerce. The report also identifies market actors, consumers, producers and institutions. Data on production, imports, exports, supply and demand are presented.
NAPECA is intended to support a flexible and diverse set of project types that will improve access to resources provided by the Parties through the CEC for smaller, more hands-on organizations and that build partnerships at the community level to support healthy communities and ecosystems, encourage climate change activities through the transition to a low-carbon […]
The Sound Management of Chemicals program has moved from a chemical-by-chemical approach to a more responsive agenda, which uses trilateral strategies that focus cooperation through four areas of work.
Transportation is second only to electricity generation as a source of greenhouse gas (gHg) emissions and freight transportation is the fastest rising component in that category. While emissions from passenger vehicles grew by 33% between 1990 and 2008, freight- related emissions grew by 74%.
This report describes the steps needed to enhance environmental sustainability in freight transportation among Canada, Mexico and the United States. It was also prepared to stress the important link between environmental sustainability and an efficient, competitive, and secure freight transportation system throughout North America.
Feature Analysis: Pollutant Releases to Surface Waters. This edition of Taking Stock presents an overview of the releases and transfers of pollutants from North American industrial sectors in 2006, the most recent data available from all three countries at the time of writing.
The Texas Transportation Institute developed this study for the CEC to create an approach by which the air quality implications of major freight corridors can be studied, with a view to reducing environmental impacts.
This portfolio features a selection of maps that illustrate the unique and harmonized geographic information contained in the North American Environmental Atlas. Each of the 13 maps presented here is accompanied by a series of examples showing how other users have applied data from the map layers to analyze or synthesize environmental information. These examples […]
This report summarizes recent research concerning the major forces and underlying trends that are likely to shape the environment of North America in 2030. The intention of this report is not to present a prediction of the future. Rather, it is to consider the possibilities that the future might hold in light of the environmental […]
Background information developed as part of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) Secretariat’s latest independent study under Article 13 of the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation.
