| Montreal, 5/06/2009 – The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) is pleased to invite you to the Sixteenth Regular Session of its Council and related events, beginning 22 June 2009, with a public workshop and concluding with the Regular Council Session on a new date—24 June—in Denver, Colorado, USA.
Public events begin 22 June with a workshop on Climate Policy Coherence in North America, organized by the CEC’s Joint Public Advisory Committee (JPAC). The workshop includes presentations from energy and climate policy experts from Canada, Mexico and the United States. Durwood Zaelke, president and founder of the Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development, headquartered in Washington, DC, and Geneva, will deliver a keynote address.
The workshop will examine the prospects for the NAFTA partners to enhance national efforts to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to our changing climate through cooperation at a North American level. It will focus upon joint solutions and cooperative measures, including policy and technical responses. The agenda will support a public exchange of ideas and proposals that JPAC will consider in formulating recommendations to the CEC Council.
The following day, Tuesday, 23 June, JPAC will hold its regular session, open to the public as observers.
In its 24 June Regular Session the CEC Council, consisting of the cabinet-level environment ministers of the three NAFTA countries—Jim Prentice of Canada, Juan Elvira Quesada of Mexico, and Lisa P. Jackson of the United States, will examine environmental issues of common concern and set direction for the Commission’s work program.
Much of the agenda will be open to the public to attend as observers. Council members will participate in a forum where the public may make oral presentations on matters related to the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation or CEC endeavors.
The Session will be broadcast online, live. For more details, see: www.cec.org/webcast
Attendance at these meetings is open to all and is free. A preliminary agenda, showing all public events as well as a registration form, is available on the CEC website.
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