Border 2025 U.S.-Mexico Environmental Program Highlights Report (Summer 2024)
National Coordinators’ Message
To all who make the Border 2025 Program possible,
For the past 40 years, since the signing of the La Paz Agreement on August 14, 1983, in La Paz, Baja California, Mexico, the United States of America and Mexico, committed to join efforts to protect the environment and improve public health in the border region. Today, through the Border 2025: U.S.-Mexico Environmental Program, significant achievements and progress has been made in addressing the serious environmental problems in the U.S. - Mexico border region. Through this program, the United States of America and Mexico, reaffirm the 1983 commitment to promote and strengthen the Program’s guiding principles and continue the successful elements from previous binational environmental programs. This document highlights the progress achieved, recognizing the future challenges for the fulfillment of the objectives of the Program.
This Border 2025: U.S.-Mexico Environmental Program Highlights Report, summarizes the binational efforts done between 2021 to 2023 to achieve tangible environmental results to improve air quality, water quality, raise awareness and education on sustainable materials practices and build capacity to respond to environmental emergencies. Despite the unique challenge border communities faced from the worldwide Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the Border Program and its Partners, remained committed to the binational efforts outlined under the framework of the Border 2025 Program.
On behalf of the National Coordinators of the Border 2025 Program, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Mexico’s Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT, acronym in Spanish), we express our sincere recognition and gratitude to all contributors of this binational effort, especially the representatives of the environmental agencies of the ten border states; the 27 U.S. federally recognized Tribes and the indigenous and Afro-Mexican communities located along the border; the Regional Coordinators, the Policy Workgroup Co-Chairs, and the local regional Task Forces; and partners from academia, industry and non-governmental organizations. To all who have actively committed themselves to this noble cause to set forth a collective vision for improving environmental conditions for all border residents, THANK YOU!
Border 2025 Program Highlights Report (Summer 2024)
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