This paper explores the important methodological issues related to estimating the net air impacts of specific resources in electric systems. In addition, we describe a number of projects undertaken across North America in which the emissions benefits of new resources—both renewable projects and efficiency programs—have been estimated. Finally, we briefly explore different views of the […]
This publication is intended to provide a framework for tri- and binational cooperation between Canada, the United States and Mexico that promotes the conservation and sustainable use of central North American grasslands.
This report summarizes the state of environmental information disclosure in North America, documents the gap in what is being reported and what the market and regulations demand, and proposes concrete steps by which the environmental agencies and ministries in North America could help the securities agencies narrow this gap. One obvious gap is in enforcement […]
This report contains an update on Mexico’s electricity sector, specially on its current and projected installed capacity and generation requirements including capital; the market share of private capitals in the national generating pool and the rate of investment flows into the country’s power industry. Also, international trade patterns in electricity are discussed and the relationship […]
This paper is supplementary to a report produced recently for the CEC on private-sector investment in Mexico’s electricity sector. Based on the official information of the Mexican power sector authorities, and in particular the register of permits issued by the Energy Regulatory Commission (Comisión Reguladora de Energía – CRE) for electricity production, an overview is […]
As interest and consumer demand grows for “green” products, and as producers realize increased market share in food products and consumer goods, public procurement, covering all federal and sub-central purchasing of countries throughout the world, is becoming an increasingly important market force. Just one web service, the Recycling Data Network Information Services, lists a recycled-content […]
Each year, thousands of facilities across North America publicly report on the amounts of certain hazardous chemicals that they release to the air, water and land, or transfer off-site for further management. This information is compiled in what are internationally known as pollutant release and transfer registers (PRTRs)— databases managed by governments as a means of ensuring that the public has access to information on chemicals being released and transferred into and through their communities.
Each year, thousands of facilities across North America publicly report on the amounts of certain hazardous chemicals that they release to the air, water and land, or transfer off-site for further management. This information is compiled in what are internationally known as pollutant release and transfer registers (PRTRs)— databases managed by governments as a means of ensuring that the public has access to information on chemicals being released and transferred into and through their communities.
Each year, thousands of facilities across North America publicly report on the amounts of certain hazardous chemicals that they release to the air, water and land, or transfer off-site for further management. This information is compiled in what are internationally known as pollutant release and transfer registers (PRTRs)— databases managed by governments as a means of ensuring that the public has access to information on chemicals being released and transferred into and through their communities.
Livestock farming has been transformed in the past twenty years from a business dominated by relatively small producers to one characterized by large, often indoor, facilities raising thousands of animals. This concentration has already occurred in the United States and Canada and has begun to occur in Mexico. This report surveys the current environmental requirements […]
The purpose of this project is to assess the feasibility of assembling a set of indicators of children’s health and the environment for North America including Canada, Mexico and the United States, with publication of a first report on the state of children’s health and the environment scheduled for 2004. While it is recognized that […]
This paper evaluates some of the environmental impacts on the U.S. of a trade liberalization scenario involving the elimination of all agricultural policy distortions (i.e., agricultural subsidies and tariffs) that were in place in the year 2000 in all trading countries (and no changes in environmental policies relative to 2000). This empirical simulation of a […]
