Public Report Briefing on "Advancing United States-Mexico Binational Sustainability Partnerships"

This new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and the Mexican Academy of Sciences examines the border region shared by the United States and Mexico which is currently experiencing multiple crises on both sides that present challenges to safeguarding the region's natural resources and to ensuring the sustainable development and livelihoods of its residents. These challenges are exacerbated by stressors including global climate change, increasing urbanization and industrialization and attendant air and water-quality degradation, and rapid population growth. Navigating these challenges and preserving the area’s cultural richness, economy, and ecology will require building strategic partnerships that engage a broad range of stakeholders from both countries, as envisioned in the Sustainable Development Goals and in particular Goal 17 on sustainability partnerships.