Have Your Say: Public Consultation on the CEC’s Community-Led Environmental Education Initiative for Biocultural Heritage Protection
The Joint Public Advisory Committee (JPAC) of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) is seeking comments and suggestions from people across North America on the implementation of the Community-Led Environmental Education Initiative for Biocultural Heritage Protection.
The Environmental Education initiative will develop and pilot an Environmental Education Framework that considers diverse knowledge systems, including, but not limited to, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and academic knowledge—to support efforts of vulnerable communities to tackle local environmental challenges and take positive climate action. The goal of the framework is to support and advance community-led conservation and climate action work.
Three pilot projects will be implemented with young leaders and community members in one community per country. The Environmental Education Framework will be pilot tested in each of the selected communities to develop tools to promote effective engagement, manage participatory processes and support community-led projects (e.g., joint factor finding, participatory mapping, cultural mediation).
This initiative will foster collaborative climate and conservation efforts and networking within and across communities to push forward community-led conservation and climate action work.
As we advance the creation of this initiative, JPAC is hosting a public consultation to help inform and strengthen the project’s implementation (please answer the questions below).
The full text of the project description is available here.
The deadline to submit comments is 25 March 2024.
