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 […]
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 […]
Contents: the proceedings of three seminars on the adjudication of environmental law held in Mexico between 2005 and 2008.
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.
This first-ever, region-wide pilot survey was initiated to inventory, research and monitor wintering birds at randomly-selected sites in Grassland Priority Conservation Areas (GPCAs) in the Chihuahuan Desert in northern Mexico and western Texas. It generated data on habitat conditions and abundance of 50 grassland obligate or facultative species in the 11 GPCAs, including 30 priority species of high regional or continental conservation interest.
The objective of this report is to document experiences and lessons learned from the planning, implementation and assessment ofthe accredited wildlife training course and to identify opportunities and challenges for this and future training efforts designed to enhance capacity building among the Parties.
This guide is an introduction to the use of marine ecological scorecards and condition reports, which are tools for assessing the condition of marine protected areas in North America. Marine protected areas (MPAs) are managed marine and coastal areas of ecological significance, featuring species and/or properties which require special consideration. Managing these areas effectively helps […]
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 […]
A book that celebrates the richness and wealth of our region’s common ocean and coastal waters.
De acuerdo al Inventario Nacional de Emisiones para México-1999, los vehículos automotores son una de las principales fuentes de emisión de contaminantes a la atmósfera, debido a que emiten cantidades importantes de óxidos de nitrógeno (NOx) e hidrocarburos (HC), los cuales, además, son los principales precursores de la formación de ozono. También, las fuentes móviles […]
This report presents an overview of the releases and transfers of chemical contaminants from North American industrial sectors in 2005.
This renewed North American agenda for chemicals management seeks to provide support to the Parties as they fulfill their commitments under the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) goal of “aiming to achieve, by 2020, that chemicals are used and produced in ways that lead to the minimization of significant adverse effects on human health […]
