Useful Links on NAFTA and the Environmental Side Agreement


Description of Home Page Website Address
Border Environmental Cooperation Commission (INCITRA Action Kit of weblinks and papers on BECC) http://www.zianet.com/irc1/bordline/1999/bl53/bl53inci.html
Border Environmental Cooperation Commission (BECC) Home Page http://www.cocef.org/
Borderlines 53 (Vol. 7, No. 2, February 1999) Special Issue on "Citizen Activism and BECC Policymaking" http://www.zianet.com/irc1/bordline/1999/bl53/bl53.html
CEC reports available on WWW for downloading http://www.cec.org/english/resources/collect.cfm?format=2
Citizen Activism and BECC Policymaking" by Scott Graves, Borderlines (Feb 1999) http://www.zianet.com/irc1/bordline/1999/bl53/bl53becc.html
Commission for Environmental Cooperation Home Page http://www.cec.org
ECO REGION (Newsletter for the Secretariat of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation) http://www.cec.org/english/resources/ecoregion/index.cfm?format+2
Fact Sheet on the BECC and the NADBANK http://iepnt1.itaiep.doc.gov/nafta/3004.htm
Fact Sheet - SUMMARY OF THE AGREEMENT ON ENVIRONMENTAL COOPERATION http://iepnt1.itaiep.doc.gov/nafta/3005.htm
Four-year Review of the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation: Report of the Independent Review Committee (June 1998) http://www.cec.org/english/procurement/cfp3.cfm?format=2
Impact of Nafta on US/Mexican Environmental Border Issues by: Claire E. Guglielmi April 1993  http://www.flash.net/~mexis/experts/legal_guglielmi_01.html
NADBank and the Public" by Mark J. Spalding, Borderlines (Feb 1999) http://www.zianet.com/irc1/bordline/1999/bl53/bl53nad.html
NAFTA & The Environment by Tim Young and Jonathan Pikoff  http://www.flash.net/~mexis/experts/legal_young_01.html
NAFTA & general environmental links http://www.zianet.com/irc1/incitra/websites/general_environmental_sites.html
North American Development Bank Home Page http://www.nadbank.org/
Summaries of environmental laws (national, bilateral, multilateral) in the NAFTA member countries http://www.cec.org/infobases/law/index.cfm?format=2&lan=english
The NAFTA Side Agreement on the Environment http://www.sice.oas.org/trade/nafta/naftatce.stm#environ [OAS website]

http://www.cec.org/english/resources/agreement/eng01.cfm?format=2[CEC website]

US-Mexico Border XXI Program (note: includes maps of border regions) http://www.epa.gov/usmexicoborder/ef.htm
US-Mexico Border XXI Final Framework Document (Oct. 1996)  http://www.epa.gov/usmexicoborder/ef.htm
U.S.-Mexico Border Environmental Indicators 1997 (US EPA) http://www.epa.gov/usmexicoborder/ef.htm

Note: click on Table of Contents to retrieve sections of report.

Border XXI Framework Comments & Response Summary Report [June 1997] http://www.epa.gov/usmexicoborder/ef.htm
USTR Report on Study on the Operation and Effect of the North American Free Trade Agreement (1997), Chapter 4, Report on the Environmental Side Agreement http://www.sice.oas.org/forum/p_sector/govt/nafta_repe/chap4_1.stm#summary. Afterwards, CLICK at bottom of page for rest of chapter. You need to do this several times to complete the chapter. The last section deals with NAFTA's environmental institutions.

Compiled by Lorraine Eden (Feb 1999)