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The Commission for Environmental Cooperation of North America has just released a report "Taking Stock: North American Pollutant Releases and Transfers" analysing the data on pollutant…
Ninety percent of the 5.5 billion kilograms of toxic pollutant releases and transfers reported in North America in 2005 can be traced to just 30 substances from 15 industrial sectors across the…
EJCC is a diverse coalition of United Sttaes environmental justice, religious, climate justice, policy and advocacy networks working for climate justice. Its consensus-based coalition develops…
The Deliberative Democracy ConsortiumProject on Public Participationin Response to Global Climate Change promotes deliberation within the public as a prerequisite for the public support needed to…
Report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises, John Ruggie. The report was scheduled to be…
The North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC) is the environmental side agreement to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The NAAEC was signed by Canada, Mexico and…
The ONI collects global data on Internet filtering using technical and contextual tools. Its analysis is based on a fusion of expert (qualitative) and statistical (quantitative) methods, and…
This article describes how citizen monitoring and an NGO's watchdog inquiry using Mexico's new freedom-of-information act alerted the public to the importation of contraband genetically-…
The OECD Guidelines for the Testing of Chemicals, key tools for governments and industry worldwide to assess the safety of chemical products, are now available free of charge on the OECD public…
This Guide explains the governance and decision-making fora and processes of the UN system. Section One explains the principal UN organs of intergovernmental decision making; the negotiating blocs of…