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Draft Environmental Impact Statement: Shivwits Grazing Management

Description: Report discussing the environmental impact of a Bureau of Land Management proposal to establish a grazing management program on public land in the Shivwits Resource Area of the Arizona Strip District in Mohave County, Arizona. Described in the report is the proposed action and alternatives considered, affected environment, environmental consequences, unavoidable adverse impacts, relationship between short-term uses and long-term productivity, and consultation and coordination activities with ot… more
Date: December 1979
Creator: United States. Bureau of Land Management. Arizona State Office
Location: See Bounding Coordinates
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Fomento a la transparencia en la cadena de suministro de las sustancias químicas contenidas en los productos de consumo. Estudio de caso: Productos electrónicos

Description: This case study discusses advancing supply chain transparency for chemicals in the electronics sector, focusing on best practices and regulatory considerations. The North American electronics sector is a significant part of the manufacturing industry, employing over a million people. Over 500 chemicals are used in electronics, with around 1,000 found in e-waste. Hazardous substances include heavy metals, flame retardants, phthalates, and solvents. The case study discusses drivers of and barrier… more
Date: December 2025
Creator: WSP Canada Inc.
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Evaluación de impacto a largo plazo del programa de subvenciones: Alianza de América del Norte para la Acción Comunitaria Ambiental (NAPECA)

Description: In 2010, the CEC Council decided to establish a new grant program, the North American Partnership for Environmental Community Action (NAPECA), to promote model environmental initiatives that use innovation and flexibility to help build long-term partnerships that would improve environmental conditions at the community, Indigenous, local, and regional levels. This grant program also had the goal of supporting the priorities of the CEC’s five-year Strategic Plan. Considering the intended objec… more
Date: December 1, 2023
Creator: Commission for Environmental Cooperation (Montréal, Québec)
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Colaboración Big Bend-Río Bravo para la conservación de paisajes transfronterizos

Description: From 2011 to 2015, the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) conducted the project <em>Big Bend-Río Bravo Collaboration for Transboundary Landscape Conservation</em>. Its objective was “conserving the unique biological diversity in the Big Bend-Río Bravo region of Mexico and the United States, using sound scientific data on challenges to ecosystem resilience to address the region’s growing vulnerability to biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation, and providing a model for collabora… more
Date: December 22, 2021
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Estudio de oportunidades en relación con el manejo de residuos de plástico en Canadá y Estados Unidos — Resumen ejecutivo

Description: The CEC has commissioned this series of three milestone studies as part of its “Transforming Recycling and Solid Waste Management in North America” project, with the goal of supporting Canada, Mexico and the United States in their efforts to promote circular economy and sustainable materials management approaches to encourage eco-design and increase product and material reuse, recovery and recycling rates. These studies aim for better understanding of the opportunities in the recycling secto… more
Date: December 17, 2024
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Estudio de oportunidades en relación con el manejo de residuos de papel en Canadá y Estados Unidos — Resumen ejecutivo

Description: The CEC has commissioned this series of three milestone studies as part of its “Transforming Recycling and Solid Waste Management in North America” project, with the goal of supporting Canada, Mexico and the United States in their efforts to promote circular economy and sustainable materials management approaches to encourage eco-design and increase product and material reuse, recovery and recycling rates. These studies aim for better understanding of the opportunities in the recycling secto… more
Date: December 17, 2024
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Monitoreo e integración de inventarios de abejas nativas de América del Norte:

Description: Native bees are essential pollinators, yet their populations face threats from multiple drivers, such as habitat loss and climate change. This report highlights current native bee monitoring practices across Canada, Mexico and the United States, showcasing methods, program considerations and innovative approaches such as community science and cultural insights. It offers actionable recommendations to enhance monitoring programs, improve data sharing and support evidence-based conservation acros… more
Date: December 9, 2024
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Estudio de oportunidades en relación con el manejo de residuos de bioplásticos en Canadá y Estados Unidos — Resumen ejecutivo

Description: The CEC has commissioned this series of three milestone studies as part of its “Transforming Recycling and Solid Waste Management in North America” project, with the goal of supporting Canada, Mexico and the United States in their efforts to promote circular economy and sustainable materials management approaches to encourage eco-design and increase product and material reuse, recovery and recycling rates. These studies aim for better understanding of the opportunities in the recycling secto… more
Date: December 17, 2024
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Salud infantil y medio ambiente en América del Norte

Description: More than 40 percent of Mexico’s total population in the year 2002 (nearly 44 million people) was under the age of 19 and the general mortality rate was five per 1,000 inhabitants. The birth rate per 1,000 inhabitants has declined from 45 in 1960 to 17 in 2000 and Mexico’s life expectancy has increased progressively, jumping 25 years between 1950 and 2000.
Date: December 1, 2005
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Manejo de las sustancias químicas en el sector de la industria electrónica

Description: At the 2008 Sound Management of Chemicals (SMOC) stakeholder meeting in Tucson, Arizona, stakeholders expressed an interest in chemicals management in the electronic and electrical equipment (EEE) sector. Knowing that the CEC’s Trade and Environment Program was already looking at this issue through their Clean Electronics Pollution Prevention Partnership (CEP3), the SMOC Working Group (WG) committed to exploring whether there was a unique role that it could contribute to the Trade and Environme… more
Date: December 1, 2009
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Ecorregiones marinas de América del Norte

Description: A book that celebrates the richness and wealth of our region's common ocean and coastal waters.
Date: December 17, 2009
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La labor de la CCA en materia de evaluación de los vínculos entre comercio y medio ambiente: su proyección en la próxima década

Description: 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.
Date: December 3, 2008
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El efecto del TLCAN en la eficiencia energética y ambiental en México

Description: In this paper, I ask whether entry into NAFTA has made Mexico more or less like the United States and Canada in terms of pollution per capita and per dollar of GDP; what has happened to the trends in the various indicators; and what the consequent effects on environmental quality have been. Energy use and emissions of carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides are examined using a variety of econometric tests and models. The results show that the extreme predictions of the outcomes of N… more
Date: December 10, 2005
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Aplicación del programa de acción mundial en América del Norte

Description: Degradation of the marine environment too often is the result of human activities that use resources beyond replenishment, that dispose of wastes in areas unable to assimilate pollutants, and that physically alter or destroy habitats. In 1995, 109 nations of the world adopted the United Nations Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land Based Activities (GPA) (United Nations Environment Programme, 1995).
Date: December 20, 2004
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Ballena franca del Atlántico Norte: Expediente de hechos relativo a la petición SEM-21-003

Description: This factual record addresses assertions from submission SEM-21-003, concerning the endangered North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis), as authorized by the CEC Council members in Council Resolution 25-01. This factual record was prepared by the CEC Secretariat pursuant to Article 24.28(5) of the USMCA/CUSMA, following a submission alleging that the United States is failing to effectively enforce its environmental laws.
Date: December 19, 2025
Creator: Commission for Environmental Cooperation (Montréal, Québec). Secretariat. Submission on Enforcement Matters Unit.
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Mecanismos de mercado para el secuestro de carbono, la eficiencia energética y la energía renovable en América del Norte

Description: This paper examines the different market-based mechanisms that could be used to encourage the sequestration of carbon; increase energy efficiency; and support the development and use of renewable energy sources. Market-based mechanisms in this paper refer to all mechanisms, voluntary or mandatory, that affect demand for or supply of energy and/or carbon sequestration, either through prices, regulation or information.
Date: December 1, 2003
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¿Qué quiere decir renovable?

Description: Currently 25 US states, as well as the United States federal government and, in Canada, the province of Quebec, which have either passed or proposed legislation requiring (or setting as a goal) a certain proportion of their electricity production to come from environmentally preferable fuel sources. These pieces of legislation are most commonly referred to as renewable portfolio standards, or RPSs. Each of these RPSs delimits the resources and technologies that will qualify as “renewable” in th… more
Date: December 15, 2003
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Información empresarial confidencial

Description: The Action Plan calls upon the CEC to prepare a paper describing the ways in which confidentiality claims are handled in NPRI and TRI and experiences to date, to assist Mexico in designing its system for handling information claimed as confidential under the RETC. It also calls upon Mexico to make RETC data publicly available, and for Canada to make the facility name and reported amounts publicly available for reports that have been claimed as confidential.
Date: December 1, 2002
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Umbrales de registro

Description: 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.
Date: December 1, 2002
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Libre comercio y medio ambiente

Description: This booklet summarizes some key observations of work thus far by the CEC Secretariat and the public. It highlights, in particular, findings presented in late 2000 at the first North American Symposium on Understanding the Linkages between Trade and Environment in Washington, DC, as well as places this important work in the broader context of valuable studies undertaken elsewhere.
Date: December 15, 2002
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Plan regional de acción BPC

Description: The RAP establishes a framework for environmentally sound management and control of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in North America. PCBs are a class of persistent, toxic chemical compounds that bioaccumulate in the environment and are recognized as potential carcinogens.
Date: December 1, 1996
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Antecedentes del estado de las negociaciones agrícolas en la OMC con atención especial a las Partes del TLCAN y las principales disposiciones de liberalización comercial del Acuerdo de la Ronda de Uruguay sobre Agricultura

Description: The first section is intended to update participants of the meeting on the latest status of the negotiations on agriculture at the WTO. As such, it includes information on what the Ministerial declaration of the fourth Ministerial Conference may mean for negotiations on agriculture, as well as on the proposals made for these negotiations by Canada, Mexico and the United States. For the most part, it condenses the proposals of the respective governments. The second section is designed to provide… more
Date: December 21, 2001
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