The NAFTA environmental side agreement: ensuring effective enforcement of environmental laws in North America?

The panel is intended to provide a space for discussion on how
and to what extent the NAFTA environmental side agreement promotes
and ensures the enforcement of environmental laws in North
America.
The discussion will focus on the citizen communications submission
process under Art. 14-15 of the North American Agreement on
Environmental Cooperation, as well as on trade and enforcement of
environmental law initiatives undertaken by the Commission for
Environmental Cooperation.
Panelists:
- Dane Ratliff, Director of Submissions on
Enforcement Matters Unit, Commission for Environmental
Cooperation
- Marco Heredia, Program Manager, Environmental
Law Program, Commission for Environmental Cooperation
- Professor Armand de Mestral, Faculty of Law,
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