Guide to Green Building Products in North America
This short document provides an overview of various green building codes and standards, ratings and certification programs, and benchmarking systems used across North America. This initiative aims to increase knowledge and awareness of green building practices and materials, help stakeholders facilitate decision-making and thus greater uptake of green building practices and materials, as well as […]
Improving Conditions for Green Building Construction in North America
Among other factors, increasing uptake of green-building construction in North America requires access to financial capital, enabling policies, and a skilled workforce. As part of the report series “Improving Conditions for Green Building Construction in North America,” this report describes three financial mechanisms with strong potential for changing the green-building financing landscape in North America and recommends changes and supporting initiatives that may help overcome existing barriers to a more widespread adoption of those models.
Improving Conditions for Green Building Construction in North America
Among other factors, increasing uptake of green-building construction in North America requires access to financial capital, enabling policies, and a skilled workforce. As part of the report series Improving Conditions for Green Building Construction in North America, this report reviews education and training opportunities throughout North America and compares those opportunities to the skills and capabilities that are needed now, or will be needed over the next decade, in ten vital workforce sectors: builders, building trades, design professionals, building operators and managers, owners and developers, real estate and finance sector, manufacturers, municipal and other government officials, specialty consultants, and occupants.
Improving Conditions for Green Building Construction in North America
Among other factors, increasing uptake of green-building construction in North America requires access to financial capital, enabling policies, and a skilled workforce. As part of the report series, “Improving Conditions for Green Building Construction in North America,” this report describes some of the most successful and innovative green building policies from jurisdictions across North America, analyzes key ingredients of their success, and presents a five-step policy framework model for the incorporation and use of those ingredients.
Hazardous Trade?
This report is an independent assessment by the Secretariat of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) on the environmental hazards associated with the increase in spent lead-acid battery (SLAB) exports to Mexico, as well as the more general environmental management of the battery recycling sector in Mexico. It considers the implications of this trade relative […]
Assessment of the Comparability of Greenhouse Gas and Black Carbon Emissions Inventories in North America
Improved comparability of greenhouse gas (GHG) and black carbon inventories will enable the Parties to share results and strengthen capacities, while working towards advancing domestic mitigation objectives,standards, regulations, and policies over the next five years.
Project Summaries
The sixteen projects summarized in this booklet are a reflection of the vision and priorities of theCECCouncil and represent a renewed commitment to environmental cooperation among Canada, Mexico and the United States.
North American Power Plant Air Emissions
North American Power Plant Air Emissions builds upon the first-such CEC assessment (published in 2004) that compiled information on emissions of criteria air pollutants, mercury, and carbon dioxide from power plants in North America for the year 2002. For the first time, data on the release of air pollutants from power plants burning fossil fuels were brought together from different national sources, varying greatly in terms of completeness and accessibility, into one format offering comparable information on fossil fuel power plant emissions in North America.
Crossing the Border
Opportunities to Improve Sound Management of Transboundary Hazardous Waste Shipments in North America
Mexican Mercury Market Report
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.
Administration and Funding Guidelines
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 […]
Environmental Labels in North America
This publication is an information tool for understanding environmental labels, to guide individual consumers and commercial buyers in their purchasing and hiring decisions. There are some 250 different labels in Canada, Mexico and the United States: the Guide provides relevant data on all of them, identifying different categories, certification schemes, countries-of-origin indications, descriptions, and websites […]