The Security and Prosperity Agreement as an “Indicator Species” for the Emerging North American Environmental Regime
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Abstract
The 2005 trilateral Security and Prosperity Agreement (SPP), with its emphasis on “quality of life” and “joint stewardship of the environment,” is a useful indicator of the state of environmental policy cooperation in North America. The SPP's environmental approach is ad hoc , disjointed and unambitious, consisting mainly of repackaged, “end‐of‐pipe” initiatives already being undertaken by various levels of government. Thus, the SPP has not changed the landscape for national policy makers in any significant way, that is, there is little evidence of regulatory harmonization as a result of SPP initiatives. Instead, the impact of the SPP may be more subtle; it helps to further institutionalize, implicitly and explicitly, a particular Prosperity Agenda, one which has been dominant in North America and views environmental problems as separate from economic dynamics. In this way, the SPP may act as a brake on domestic policy ambitions and does little to encourage a more thoroughgoing discussion of environment–economy linkages.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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