The exchange of knowledge, technology and expertise plays a critical role in achieving EPA's international objectives. Technical assistance, training, information dissemination, research and development, and other forms of technical cooperation can help solve environmental problems worldwide, including the global and regional threats to health and the environment in the United States. Sharing the costs of environmental regulation and research, as well as benefitting from scientific and technological breakthroughs in other countries, can reduce the cost of environmental protection in the United States.

Recommended EPA Web pages

• International Affairs: Technical Assistance
  This page provides information about the technical assistance EPA gives to its partner countries and to multilateral organizations through training courses, technology transfer, sharing of environmental data and information, and environmental education initiatives.
• International Affairs: Capacity - Building Programs
  EPA works with others to develop training courses, information programs, toolkits, and other resources which help to build capacity to manage air and climate programs.

Border Issues
Great Lakes, Transboundary Pollution, US-Canada Border, US-Mexico Border

Chemicals Management
Green Chemistry, Import, Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers (PRTRS), Screening

Country & Regional Programs
Canada, Caribbean, Central Europe, China, Eastern Europe, Japan, Latin America, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, Western Europe

Environmental Policy
Marine Pollution, Trade

Global Climate Change
Carbon Sequestration, Carbon Sink, Forestry, Greenhouse Gas, Land Use, Methane, Technology Cooperation

Import/Export
Laws, Pesticides, Waste

International Visitors

Partners/Networks
Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), International Joint Commission (IJC), NAFTA Technical Working Group on Pesticides, OECD Pesticide Working Group, Regional Environmental Centers

Pollution Prevention
Binational Toxics Strategy

Radiation
Radioactive Materials, Release, Standards

Stratospheric Ozone

Technical Assistance
Environmental Technology Verification, Site Remediation Technologies, Training

Treaties and Agreements
Basel Convention, Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, La Paz Agreement, London Convention, Marpol Agreement, Montreal Protocol, North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC), North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), US-Japan Agreement on Cooperation in Environmental Protection, US-Taiwan Bilateral Agreement In the Field of Environmental Protection, US-Thailand Agreement in the Area of Environmental Protection

Voluntary Standards
ISO 14000

Waste

Water
Marine Pollution, Transboundary