The Trinational Information Repository- The Trinational Information Repository was created with support of the State of New Mexico under a contract to The North American Institute (NAMI). The goal of the project is to develop an electronic technology data base for use by New Mexico and other entities to aid in the strengthening of social, cultural and economic ties with Canada, Mexico and the United States. To that end the site is intended to provide information on critical issues to the three countries as well as explore other issues, questions and solutions of interest to North America. It is anticipated that the data and information in the Repository will continue to grow and develop with continuing input from NAMI, NAMI supporters and public interested in North American affairs.
Latest Additions
NAMI is aggregating a collection of podcasts/vodcasts on the subject of Water Security, as part of a larger project gathering Climate Change and Water information for Canada, Mexico and the United States.You can find out more in those sections of the TIR that deal with those subjects:
Upcoming Water Symposium
Media [podcasts, videos]
Our array of podcasts will be complete June 2008.
TRINATIONAL NEWS
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Beyond the point of no return
Grist, December 10, 2007 - “As the pace of global warming kicks into overdrive, the hollow optimism of climate activists, along with the desperate responses of some of the world’s most prominent climate scientists, is preventing us from focusing on the survival requirements of the human enterprise. The environmental establishment continues to peddle the notion that we can solve the climate problem. We can’t.” Read more.
Wednesday, December 05, 2007
NAFTA Free Trade Myths Lead to Farm Failure in Mexico.
Americas Program, Dec. 5, 2007 - “The tariff removal ostensibly gives full rein to an open-market trade and investment regime between the United States and Mexico. The idea is that all products now enter into a competitive market that will self-regulate to enhance production, efficiency, investment, and, indirectly, the lives of Mexican producers and consumers. That’s the idea. But what has happened in the Mexican countryside over the past 14 years of NAFTA shows that free trade has been a disaster for small farmers in Mexico.” Read more.
Monday, December 03, 2007
New ‘rigidity of mindset’ hurting cross-border trade between Canada and the U.S.
Canadian Business Online, December 3, 2007 - “Heightened security concerns and ‘escalating protectionist rhetoric’ in the United States is damaging cross-border trade with Canada, International Trade Minister David Emerson says. ‘We see more and more border measures, such as fees for product inspections and new regulatory requirements, and a new rigidity of mindset that is thickening our historically open border’ Emerson said in the prepared text of a speech given at a Miami conference Monday night.” Read more.
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Bali climate summit: a test of the world’s resolve
Christian Science Monitor, November 29, 2007 - “Next week is seen as crunch time in the fight against global warming. Representatives from some 130 nations will gather in Bali, Indonesia, beginning a two-year effort to agree on a new pact to cut greenhouse-gas emissions – one that goes well beyond the goals of the current Kyoto Protocol.” Read more.
Monday, November 26, 2007
Canada and US release study to ensure Great Lakes and St. Lawrence seaway systems.
Government of Canada, News Centre, Nov. 26, 2007 - “The study has produced many points to consider, from defining the significance of the Seaway system in meeting the current and future commercial transport needs to identifying how to maintain the infrastructure and operate the system in an environmentally sustainable fashion while reaching its maximum potential.” Read more.
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Analysis: Prepping for post-Kyoto talks
UPI, November 20, 2007 - “The success of post-Kyoto Protocol talks this December hinge on determining which countries must commit to limit greenhouse gas emissions and what the nature of those commitments should be, experts say. The Kyoto Protocol, an international treaty that aims at climate-change mitigation, expires in 2012, 13 years after its adoption at a U.N. conference in 1997 and seven years after it officially came into force. On Dec. 3, delegations from around the world will converge on Bali, Indonesia, to develop a framework for upcoming talks on the treaty’s replacement.” Read more.
Sunday, November 18, 2007
84 Ways You Can Help The Planet
Boston Globe, November 18 - “Sure, big ideas like generating electricity from ocean waves or legal limits on carbon emissions are important to slowing global warming. But the little things count, too. Here are some ways that you can make a difference.” Read more.
Friday, November 16, 2007
UN: climate change will have ‘abrupt and irreversible’ consequences.
Times Online, Britain, November 16, 2007 - “A panel of the United Nations’ leading scientists is to warn that climate change could have “abrupt and irreversible” consequences, in a landmark document designed to force action from member states on the issue. [snip] In three previous reports, IPCC experts have agreed that the rise in Earth’s temperature observed in the past few decades is principally the result of human activity, not natural causes, as sceptics have argued.” Read more.
