Discussion questions on CEC Air Quality work plan: Assessments of transboundary air issues under the 2002 CEC Council Final Communiqué

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In June 2002, the Secretariat of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) released, under Article 13 of the North American Agreement for Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC), a report entitled "Environmental Challenges and Opportunities of the Evolving North American Electricity Market." This document included a number of recommendations from a nongovernmental advisory board that aimed at achieving the full environmental and economic benefits of an evolving North American electricity market. In consideration of those recommendations, the CEC Council (the three environment ministers, or equivalent, of North America) agreed to a number of items in its 2002 Council Communiqué, all of which are currently part of the CEC 2003 annual work plan. In the 2003 CEC work plan section for "Cooperation on North American Air Quality Issues," the CEC has included three new items taken from the Council Communiqué, and as such, they can be considered new follow-up activities to the CEC Article 13 report on electricity and the environment. Therefore, this session is a key opportunity to publicly discuss the scope of assessments that could be undertaken in the CEC's new work in these three areas.