Vancouver Island Technology Park
LEED Project # 0113
Estimating the Non-Air Environmental Benefits of Renewable Power Sources
This study assesses methodologies for comparing renewable and conventional power sources and provides a step by step guide to estimating the benefits of individual renewable energy power projects.
Positioning the CEC’s Work on the Assessment of Trade and Environment Linkages for the Next Decade
This report summarizes the discussions that took place during the Fourth North American Symposium on Assessing the Environmental Effects of Trade: Services and the Environment that took place on 24 April 2008, and is informed by interviews that were conducted with 24 leading North American and international experts.
Buying Environmentally Preferable Office Equipment
This fact sheet is intended to help institutions easily adopt a purchasing program for printers, copiers and fax machines (office equipment) that accounts for social and environmental concerns.
Environmentally Preferable Cleaning Chemicals
By switching to green cleaners, buyers can avoid cleaning products containing toxic chemicals, thereby avoiding the various environmental and health impacts and risks associated with their manufacture, use and disposal.
Green Electricity
“Green electricity” is electricity that has been generated from renewable resources with minimal adverse environmental effects. Thus, it reduces the human health and environmental risks while continuing to provide all of the associated benefits.
Renewable Energy as a Hedge Against Fuel Price Fluctuation
This paper explores the potential for renewable energy to serve as a financial “hedge,” reducing exposure to fuel price risk. Renewable energy generation brings with it the price stability benefits of free-fuel generation from emerging technologies such as solar, wind, small hydro, and geothermal sources.
EcoMarkets 2008 Summary Report
The report summarizes research conducted in 2007 and 2008 in partnership with the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation and with the Responsible Purchasing Network at the non-profit Center for a New American Dream.
Annotated Bibliography on the Environmental Effects of Biofuels
This annotated bibliography reviews literature from Canada, Mexico and the United States related to the environmental effects of liquid biofuels, defined in most cases as ethanol and biodiesel. It focuses on academic, government or government-sponsored documents and studies developed in Canada, Mexico and the United States. It is not meant to be a comprehensive review […]
The North American Mosaic
The North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation obliges the Secretariat of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation to “periodically address the state of the environment in the territories of the Parties.” To meet this obligation, the Secretariat has developed this report——with the support of environmental reporting experts from the governments of Canada, Mexico and the United States.
Trade and Environment in North America 08
These proceedings present a summary of the symposium sessions as contributed by discussants and rapporteurs. The full texts of the ten papers in their original languages are available on the CEC web page.
Liberalization of Financial Services Under NAFTA and Its Effect on the Environmental Performance of the Agricultural Sector in Mexico
As a result of its peso crisis in 1994–1995 and the need for capital, the Mexican government accelerated the financial liberalization process projected under NAFTA, increasing foreign ownership of banks. These changes and ensuing legislation greatly affected the credit market in Mexico.