Transborder Environment

As North America continues to grow, consistent policies on the environment and, by extension, human health, are increasingly necessary to ensure that negative social impacts are minimized and key resources are used in a sustainable manner.

NACTS works to help build a cleaner and more sustainable North America in a number of ways, including hosting research consortium and key events.

Key Initiatives

Binational Water and Renewable Energy Institute
NACTS represent ASU within the new Binational Water and Renewable Energy Institute, created by Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano and Sonora Governor Eduardo Bours in September 2007. The Arizona Water Institute coordinates Arizona's contribution to this unique collaboration. A workshop for the Institute will be held at the Arizona Department of Water Resources on Feb. 21. More information...

Southwest Consortium for Environmental Research and Policy
NACTS represents ASU in the Southwest Consortium for Environmental Research and Policy (SCERP), a federally funded consortium of U.S. and Mexican universities that focus research efforts on U.S.-Mexico border environmental issues.

Border Environmental Institutions panel at 2008 NNASC Conference, "North American Issues: Designing Institutions, Choosing Policies," Vancouver, March 14-15
The North American Center for Transborder Studies will prepare papers and present findings on a panel on border environnmental institutions at a conference organized by the Network on North American Studies in Canada (NNASC) and the University of British Columbia (UBC). The theme of the conference and panel will afford an examination of both national and border environmental institutions and polices at both borders thus a chance to discover, export, and import the best management practices from each nation and both borders. Each of the NACTS partner universities has been invited and at least one paper from both Canada and U.S and two papers from Mexico will be presented.

Commission for Environmental Cooperation Trade and Environment Symposium - April 22-25, 2008
NACTS has been selected to host the fourth North American Symposium on Assessing the Environmental Effects of Trade of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, a unique trinational institution that was established to complement the environmental provisions of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

NACTS co-sponsors conference on “Greening North American Trade Corridors”
On April 22-24, the Commission for Environmental Cooperation held its fourth annual Symposium on Trade and the Environment.