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Migratory Birds: Factual Record

Description: The second case involves a logging company’s alleged intentional burning of four trees on private land, including one allegedly nested by a pair of ospreys. The Submitters included these two cases in the submission to illustrate their assertion that the United States is failing to effectively enforce Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) Section 703, 16 U.S.C. § 703, as it relates to loggers, logging companies and logging contractors on federal and non-federal lands throughout the United States.
Date: April 24, 2003
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The Current Status of Renewable Energy Certificate Tracking Systems in North America

Description: The need to increase the amount of renewable generation to meet regulatory obligations as well as voluntary purchases of renewable energy by residential and commercial customers has rapidly expanded the marketplace for renewable electricity certificates (RECs). Electronic issuing and tracking systems have been developed in parts of North America, European Union and Australia to support the development of RECs as a compliance and market tool. The paper discusses and compares the existing or prop… more
Date: December 1, 2003
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Market-Based Mechanisms for Carbon Sequestration, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy in North America

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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Air Quality at Congested Border Crossings

Description: The work described in this report builds upon existing North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) supported activities related to air quality impacts associated with transport along trade corridors. The goal of the proposed work was to evaluate the current availability of data to assess community exposures related to emissions at congested border crossings. The overall objective of this work was to estimate the potential public health impacts of exposure to air pollutants fro… more
Date: February 24, 2003
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What is Renewable?

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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The Sound Management of Chemicals (SMOC) Initiative

Description: Five North American Regional Action Plans (DDT, chlordane, PCBs; mercury; and environmental monitoring and assessment) have been developed and are now at various stages of implementation. Two more regional or North American action plans are now under development, one for a cluster of substances-dioxins and furans, and hexachlorobenzene- and a second for lindane.
Date: October 1, 2003
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Health Impacts of Air Pollution on Morbidity and Mortality Among Children of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico

Description: The results obtained provide information on the adverse health effect of air pollution among children. The number of cases attributable to air pollution can then be calculated in order to provide decision makers with an estimate of the burden of diseases associated with this environmental threat among children who are vulnerable because of their living conditions.
Date: November 10, 2003
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Assessment of Mechanisms in Mexico for Tracking Imports and Exports of Mercury for Use and Disposal

Description: In 1997 the governments of Canada, Mexico and the United States agreed to a North American Regional Action Plan (NARAP) on mercury, intended to support the domestic and trilateral efforts to reduce the exposure of North American ecosystems, flora and fauna, and especially humans, to mercury. The ultimate goal of this NARAP is to prevent and reduce anthropogenic releases and transfers of mercury to the North American environment, through the development and execution of appropriate national and … more
Date: February 1, 2003
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Mechanisms for Tracking Canadian Mercury Imports and Exports for Use and Disposal

Description: The Commission for Environmental Cooperation's (CEC) North American Regional Action Plan on Mercury (NARAP) is intended to assist the governments of Canada, Mexico and the United States in reducing the exposure of North American ecosystems, fish and wildlife and humans to mercury, through the prevention and reduction of anthropogenic releases of mercury to the North American environment. Both national and international initiatives are envisioned to achieve this goal.
Date: September 25, 2003
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Mechanisms for Tracking Mercury Imports and Exports for Use and Disposal in Canada, Mexico and the United States

Description: The Commission for Environmental Cooperation's (CEC) North American Regional Action Plan (NARAP) on Mercury is intended to assist the governments of Canada, Mexico and the United States in reducing the exposure of North American ecosystems, fish and wildlife and humans to mercury, through the prevention and reduction of anthropogenic releases of mercury to the North American environment.
Date: March 1, 2003
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North American Regional Action Plan on Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Description: Certain persistent, toxic, and bio-accumulative substances released to the environment as a result of human activity are transported long distances through air and water and pose unacceptably high risks to the environment, to ecosystems, to human health and to sustainable development.
Date: September 8, 2003
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Mercury Control in North America

Description: Significant reductions in mercury use and emissions are anticipated in North America under an agreement reached by Canada, Mexico, and the United States. The North American Regional Action Plan (NARAP) on mercury, adopted by the three countries through the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) of North America, provides a strategic framework, specific actions, targets and timeframes to reduce the uses and releases of mercury in North America.
Date: April 1, 2003
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Lindane

Description: Lindane is a persistent organic pollutant (POP) that, as of March 2002, remains registered as an insecticide in Canada, Mexico, and the United States.
Date: September 8, 2003
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DDT No Longer Used in North America

Description: The production and use of DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) has been eliminated in Canada, Mexico, and the United States under a North American Regional Action Plan (NARAP) negotiated by the three signatory countries to the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC).
Date: September 8, 2003
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Chlordane No Longer Used in North America

Description: The use of chlordane has been eliminated in Canada, Mexico and the United States as a result of a North American Regional Action Plan (NARAP) negotiated by the three countries through the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) of North America.
Date: April 1, 2003
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Grasslands

Description: It does so by providing a trinational overview of information about the central North American grasslands and the conservation issues faced in the region. This contextual framework seeks to move the conservation agenda forward to the eventual development of a conservation strategy for the grasslands of North America that will integrate, build upon and enhance individual initiatives found in the three countries of North America that could complement each other.
Date: July 31, 2003
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Estimating the Environmental Benefits of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency in North America

Description: 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 principles that should underlie this kind of work and several important policy issues that this work raises.
Date: September 22, 2003
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Private Investment in Mexico's Electricity Sector (Technology and Energy Selection)

Description: 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 provided here of the characteristics and status of permits issued to generation facilities, the amounts and sources of the cor… more
Date: June 16, 2003
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Private Investment in Mexico's Electricity Sector

Description: 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 between private investment in the planned exports of electricity.
Date: June 16, 2003
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Environmental Disclosure in Financial Reporting

Description: 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 of rules requiring disclosure of financially material information.
Date: June 19, 2003
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