CEC panel eyes citizen-complaint procedure

August 2003

Costa Rica

Criticism greets Costa Rica’s tourism blueprint

Opponents of oil drilling along Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast scored a victory against foreign oil companies last year when the government of newly elected President ......

Peru

Who ought to market Peru’s “golden fleece”?

Clutching a rope hung with multicolored streamers, some 200 campesinos and a handful of tourists trudge across the upland plain. As a cluster of animals ......

Mexico

Mexican party gains seats, but not respect

The Mexican Green Ecologist Party achieved a breakthrough in the country’s July 6 midterm elections, becoming the nation’s fourth largest political party. But at the ......

Brazil

Studies to gauge Amazon mercury pollution

Brazilian researchers funded by the World Bank have begun conducting health and environmental studies aimed at protecting Amazon communities and the environment from mercury contamination ......

CEC

CEC panel eyes citizen-complaint procedure

Three years ago, the Mexican nonprofit Commission for Solidarity and Defense of Human Rights filed a citizens’ complaint with the Commission on Environmental Cooperation (CEC), ......

Countries throughout the Andean region are being encouraged to develop biotrade programs to enhance sustainable-development strategies. As the name implies, biotrade concerns exploiting biodiversity to develop ......

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Shade brightens grim coffee picture

The town of Mesa de los Santos lies on a treeless, 5,400-foot (1,650-meter) -high savanna so dry that little more than scrub survives. Most farmers ......

Q&A

Shade cultivation seen as future for Colombian coffee

Oswaldo Acevedo, a marketing and political-polling consultant, began producing specialty coffee in 1995 on a small plantation founded by his great-grandfather 130 years ago. ......

CEC panel eyes citizen-complaint procedure

CEC

Three years ago, the Mexican nonprofit Commission for Solidarity and Defense of Human Rights filed a citizens’ complaint with the Commission on Environmental Cooperation (CEC), the tri-lateral agency created under a side agreement to the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta). It charged Mexico was failing to enforce its environmental laws by allowing deforestation of the Sierra Tarahumara, in Chihuahua state. The CEC’s governing Council responded by approving the preparation of a factual record in the case. But from the Mexican group’s perspective, that was the welcome half of a good-news/bad-news outcome. The bad: The CEC took three years to agree to complete and publicize the investigation. Furthermore, the CEC’s citizens’ complaint process does not allow for mandatory remedies or sanctions... [Log in to read more]

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August 2003

Costa Rica

Criticism greets Costa Rica’s tourism blueprint

Opponents of oil drilling along Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast scored a victory against foreign oil companies last year when the government of newly elected President ......

Peru

Who ought to market Peru’s “golden fleece”?

Clutching a rope hung with multicolored streamers, some 200 campesinos and a handful of tourists trudge across the upland plain. As a cluster of animals ......

Mexico

Mexican party gains seats, but not respect

The Mexican Green Ecologist Party achieved a breakthrough in the country’s July 6 midterm elections, becoming the nation’s fourth largest political party. But at the ......

Brazil

Studies to gauge Amazon mercury pollution

Brazilian researchers funded by the World Bank have begun conducting health and environmental studies aimed at protecting Amazon communities and the environment from mercury contamination ......

CEC

CEC panel eyes citizen-complaint procedure

Three years ago, the Mexican nonprofit Commission for Solidarity and Defense of Human Rights filed a citizens’ complaint with the Commission on Environmental Cooperation (CEC), ......

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Bolivia working to promote biotrade

Centerpiece (Free Read)

Shade brightens grim coffee picture

The town of Mesa de los Santos lies on a treeless, 5,400-foot (1,650-meter) -high savanna so dry that little more than scrub survives. Most farmers ......

Q&A

Shade cultivation seen as future for Colombian coffee

Oswaldo Acevedo, a marketing and political-polling consultant, began producing specialty coffee in 1995 on a small plantation founded by his great-grandfather 130 years ago. ......