Commission for Environmental Cooperation Trade and Environment Symposium: Trade and Environment in North America 08
Tempe, Arizona, April 22-24, 2008
About the event:
On April 22-24, the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, a trilateral organization created by Canada, the U.S. and Mexico to address environmental concerns, held its fourth annual Symposium on Trade and the Environment. NACTS co-sponsored the first day of the event, with a conference on Greening North America’s Trade Corridors. The series of panel presentations and discussions focused on environmental issues related to NAFTA’s trade corridors and borders.
Panelists represented trade groups, port authorities, think tanks, universities, transportation corridors, government agencies and private companies devoted to sustainability. The panelists and over 100 attendees discussed how to define green corridors across borders, how to promote green supply chains, and how to green NAFTA trucks, among other topics.
The events, which will included presentations from some of North America’s top experts on environment and trade issues, took place over three days:
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22 April – Greening North America’s Trade Corridors.
Sponsored by NACTS, this series of panel discussions will focus on environmental issues related to NAFTA’s trade corridors and borders.
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23 April – Fourth North American Symposium on Assessing the Environmental Effects of Trade: Services and the Environment.
For this event, the CEC has commissioned 12 research papers that will look at environmental issues in the services sector, including tourism, transportation, waste and financing. The papers will be presented by their authors. See below for a complete list.
24 April – Environmental Assessment of NAFTA: Lessons Learned from the CEC’s Trade and Environment Symposia.
This public forum, hosted by the CEC’s Joint Public Advisory Committee, provided an opportunity to review the outcomes of CEC’s symposia to date and identify opportunities for future work.
Papers Presented:
Structural Changes in Mexico: Trade Liberalization, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Environment
Gustavo Alanis-Ortega, President, Mexican Center for Environmental Law (Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental—CEMDA)
Environmental Implications of Trade Liberalization on North American Transport Services: The Case of the Trucking Sector
Linda Fernandez, Professor, University of California, Riverside, and Karel Mayrand, Director of Research for the Unisféra International Center
Transportation Services, Air Quality and Trade
Linda Fernandez, Professor, University of California, Riverside
The Evolution of the Environmental Services Industry in Mexico, 1995–2005
Grant Ferrier, Project Manager, Environmental Business International, Inc.
George Stubbs and Fiona O’Donnell-Lawson, Project Contributors
Sustainable Environmental Performance in the Mexican Port and Maritime System
Miguel Arturo Giles Maldonado, Consultant, analyst and researcher on environmental and sustainable projects in Mexico
Pollution and International Trade in Services
Arik Levinson, Georgetown University Economics Department/National Center for
Environmental Economics (US EPA)/National Bureau of Economic Research
The Environment and Tourism Services in Mexico
Luz Aída Martinez Meléndez, Master’s candidate, Natural Resources and Environmental Economics, University of Vermont
Solid Waste Management as a Consequence of Commercial Exchange of Products across the Northern Mexican Border
Claudia María Martínez Peralta, Sonora State Commission for Ecology and Sustainable Development
Environmental Implications of an Emerging Food Services and Food Retail Market in North America: Market Pressures, Policy Approaches
Jacob Park, Assistant Professor of Business Strategy and Sustainability, Green Mountain College
Tourism, Trade and the Environment: Tourism and Coastal Development in the Mexican Portion of the Mesoamerican Reef
Vanessa Pérez-Cirera, World Wildlife Fund—Mexico
Gina DeFerrari, World Wildlife Fund—United States
The Impact from Growth in Industrial-Commercial Activities (from 1995 to 2005) on Environmental Service Provided to Communities Along Mexico’s Northern Border
Alberto Ramírez López, Special Projects Manager, Border Environment Cooperation Commission
