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BORDER 2025 PROGRAM is sponsored by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and North American Development Bank (NADB). The Border 2025 Program is a bi-national collaborative effort focused on protecting human health and the environment in the U. S.
-Mexico border region. It targets underserved communities disproportionately impacted by environmental risks.
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U.S.-Mexico Environmental Program: Border 2025 Border 2025 is a collaborative effort of the United States and Mexico to improve the environment along their 1,950-mile border and protect the health of the nearly 15 million people living in the region. To support EPA and SEMARNAT in achieving their objectives, NADBank provides services to facilitate stakeholder meetings, as well as to identify, contract and manage projects.
The Border 2025 Program is the latest environmental program implemented under the 1983 La Paz Agreement. Building on the previous Border 2012 and Border 2020 environmental programs, it takes a regional, bottom-up approach to decision-making, priority setting and project implementation to address environmental and public health issues in the border region.
As under the previous two border programs, Border 2025 encourages meaningful participation from communities and local stakeholders. Border 2025 focuses on regional areas where environmental improvements are needed the most: establishing thematic goals, supporting the implementation of projects, considering new fundamental strategies, and encouraging the achievement of more ambitious environmental and public health goals.
With grants from EPA, the program finances projects aimed at achieving one of the following goals: Promote sustainable materials management and waste management, and clean sites Improve joint preparedness for and response to hazardous environmental emergencies Texas/New Mexico/Chihuahua and Texas/Tamaulipas/Nuevo León/Coahuila As a result of the request for proposals selection process launched at the start of the Border 2025 program, 17 initiatives were selected and approved to receive just over US$1.
15 million in grant funding, representing approximately 73% of the total cost. The project sponsors are covering the remaining 27% of the costs with their own funds or funds they have raised from other institutions. As of March 31, 2026, thirteen projects had been completed.
California/Arizona/Baja California/ As a result of the request for proposals selection process completed in September 2021, twelve initiatives were selected and approved to receive US$ 733,805 in grant funding, covering approximately 54% of the total cost. The project sponsors are covering the remaining 46% of the costs with their own funds or funds they have raised from other institutions.
As of March 31, 2026, eleven projects had been completed.
Learn more about the program and its activities at: Asthma Home Visiting Services among Tribal Communities along the Arizona and California Border Empowering Air Quality Knowledge Base of the Lower RGV Citizenry Lower Rio Grande Valley (Brownsville-Harlingen-McAllen) Integrated Waste Management Plan for Landfill Rain Harvesters, San Pedro River Basin, Sonora Educacion al Poniente de Ciudad Juarez Lower Rio Grande Valley Real Time Surface Water Monitoring Pilot Program Edinburg, Willacy, Hidalgo and Cameron, TX Lower Rio Grande (LRG)/Bravo Two-Day Salinity Level Forecast using Artificial Intelligence Applying hydrogeochemistry to refine hydrologic conceptualization of Amistad Reservoir region Comunidades Rurales Ambientalmente Responsible Matamoros Decentralized Onsite Wastewater Treatment Facility Survey and Community Education Exposición al deterioro de la calidad del aire de la población en Piedras Negras y Acuna Piedras Negras y Acuna, COAH Community Prevention of Clandestine Dump Anexa Miramar, Tijuana, BC Borderwide Study to Evaluate 6 Sister City Joint Contingency Plans (SCJCP) Air and Health Surveillance System, Mexicali-Imperial Valley Improving Children's Environmental Health In Hidalgo County There are no results matching your search.
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