Internal Review of the North American Fund for Environmental Cooperation (NAFEC)
The Secretariat mandated an evaluation of the effectiveness and impacts of the NAFEC program to be presented at the Regular Session of the CEC Council in June 2000. The purpose of this evaluation is to provide Council with information and recommendations to aid it in making decisions about future directions for the NAFEC program.
Promoting Sustainable Tourism in North America’s Natural Areas
This paper describes the Commission for Environmental Cooperation’s (CEC) Sustainable Tourism in Natural Areas project. The initiatives described here are based on the experience derived from previous phases of the project. The next steps ensure a concrete, practical approach by focusing on promoting sustainable tourism in North America’s natural areas, and protected areas in particular, […]
Experts Workshop on Shade-Grown Coffee
The purpose of this workshop is to explore practical ways of supporting sustainable production and consumption of Mexican shade-grown coffee.
Environmental and Other Labeling of Coffee: The Role of Mutual Recognition
The roots of environmental labeling can be found in the escalating global concern for environmental protection on the part of governments, businesses, interest groups, and the public. There is a general desire to identify, take and reward actions that address this concern, and, for many years, environmental labels have been developed and used around the […]
Supporting Green Markets
Among the highlights of this report: There are at least 25 important environmental labeling schemes in place in the United States. These schemes cover 156 product categories and approximately 310 actual products. While diversity of choice—especially in public policy instruments—is welcome, the current state of environmental labels may contribute to a bewildering array of choices […]
Measuring Consumer Interest in Mexican Shade-Grown Coffee
The objective of this report is to present the findings of a market analysis measuring consumer interest in, and potential demand for, Mexican shade-grown coffee in North America.
Defining Shade Coffee With Bio-Physical Criteria
This project developed a set of definitions for “shade coffee” for the Mexican context. The mechanism for producing these definitions involved a workshop in which scientifically based information relative to shade coffee was presented and discussed by researchers involved in diverse studies related to coffee.
Tracing the Paths of Our Shared Environment
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 […]
Assessing Environmental Effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Assessing Environmental Effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA): An Analytic Framework (Phase II) and Issue Studies is the second draft of a methodology for examining the environmental effects of NAFTA.
Electricity in North America
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 […]
Feedlot Production of Cattle in the United States and Canada
The purpose of this issue study is to consider some specific environmental implications of expanded North American trade and investment under NAFTA; the analysis was carried out by implementing a general framework developed by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation’s NAFTA Effects Project. The scope of this issue study is sectoral, focusing on the beef and […]
Assessing Environmental Effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
The purpose of this study is to consider the environmental implications of expanded North American trade and investment under NAFTA by implementing and developing a general framework being constructed by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation’s NAFTA Effects Project.