This issue paper discusses reporting thresholds used by each national PRTR. Reporting thresholds are applied to determine whether a facility has to report for a particular chemical. There are thresholds relating to the number of employees at the facility and thresholds relating to the amount of the chemical.
The goal of the CEC’s work on the Chamaedorea palm, a wild species endemic to Mexico and selected by the CEC’s Governing Council as a pilot species, is to study the possibility of using the market to protect the species. The basic question is, under what conditions, if any, would trading of a wild species […]
The NARAP on environmental monitoring and assessment provides a framework for a regional-scale strategy (based on geographic/climatic regions) for monitoring and assessing persistent toxic substances in the North American environment.
Has North America made progress in reducing industrial releases of chemicals in the five years from 1995 to 1999? How many tonnes of carcinogens are released to air, water and land each year, and what are the trends in these releases? Have the agreements and regulations on chemicals that deplete that ozone layer had any effect on releases of those substances? Information to help answer these questions can be drawn from pollutant release and transfer registers (PRTRs), which provide detailed information on the types, locations and amounts of chemicals released or transferred by facilities.
Has North America made progress in reducing industrial releases of chemicals in the five years from 1995 to 1999? How many tonnes of carcinogens are released to air, water and land each year, and what are the trends in these releases? Have the agreements and regulations on chemicals that deplete that ozone layer had any […]
An Overview of Environmental Challenges to the Health of North America’s Children
Disclosure of financially material information is essential for the protection of investors against fraud and for the efficient functioning of financial markets. It is widely accepted as a fundamental principle of capital market governance that investors must have access to all relevant information in order to make rational decisions about buying, selling, or holding securities. Incomplete or asymmetric access to material information can easily lead to the mis-pricing of securities in financial markets. Moreover, lack of disclosure can conceal financial manipulation and misconduct.
Among the key issues shaping the free trade and economic globalization debate is the question of how trade liberalization affects environmental quality, either in terms of direct effects on our environment, or indirectly, for instance, the effects that such trade laws as those codified in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) have on hard-fought national environmental standards and regulations.
El presente reporte integra los resultados de los informes de ocho países (Belice, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, México, Nicaragua y Panamá) quienes realizaron un diagnóstico situacional del uso del DDT y el control de Malaria en el periodo de Septiembre 2000 a Marzo 2001, mediante una guía de trabajo diseñada ex profeso y […]
The North American Mosaic has four overarching features. First, it is, to the extent feasible, based on comparable information on the status and trends of major indicators of thestate of the environment in Canada, Mexico, and the United States.
The purpose of this report is to identify potential investment opportunities arising from possible carbon offset projects in Mexico.
