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Every Observation Matters!
The International Monarch Monitoring Blitz is a community science initiative open to anyone in North America. Each year, the Monarch Blitz takes place over a 10-day period, starting on the last Friday of July and ending on the Sunday of the following week.
A unique trinational organization advancing a regional approach to environmental cooperation and creating linkages across Canada, Mexico and the United States to address emerging and complex environmental challenges.
CEC projects bring together experts, governments and communities to share knowledge, build capacity, pilot scalable solutions and strengthen cooperation, turning shared goals into action for North America’s environment.
Featured Project
Methane is a short-lived climate pollutant (SLCP) and a potent greenhouse gas. At the 2023 North American Leaders Submit (NALS), Canada, Mexico and the United States recognized “the urgency for rapid, coordinated and ambitious measures to build clean energy economies and respond to the climate crisis” and committed to “reduce...
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Project Overview
Common trash from consumer goods in coastal and inland locations makes up the majority of trash that ends up pollluting our oceans. Marine Litter damages ecosystems and kills marine life, threatening our food supplies, tourism, the fishing industry and our economies. Through its 2017-2018 project "Building Community solutions to Marine Litter", the CEC led the first local, community-based approach in two transboundary areas -the Tijuana River and the Salish Sea- to help identifying and implementing low-cost and low-technology solutions to local marine litter. This set of brochures includes a project overview and details the engagement processes and activities carried out in the Tijuana River and the Salish Sea watersheds.
