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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
Providing access to affordable, reliable and clean energy for all is a global challenge. Advancements in renewable energy sources and enabling technologies (e.g., storage), as well as their decentralized nature, represent available and realistic options for supplying access to low-cost and sustainable electricity in remote communities. Under this initiative, the...
Featured Publication
Transforming Recycling and Solid Waste Management in the US and Canada
This study focuses on the treatment of post-consumer paper and cardboard waste from commercial and residential sources in Canada and the United States. This publication describes the value chain, infrastructure, handling in primary and secondary markets for paper and cardboard and documents the current state of waste recovery and recycling among the population in the country. It also includes a summary of current public policies and regulations within a circular economy (CE) framework. Best practices in waste management that could be applied, based on the recommendations and findings of this study are also identified with the goal of providing information for decision-makers.
This publication is part of the project: Transforming Recycling and Solid Waste Management in North America. The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) commissioned a series of milestone studies on the recycling and management of paper and cardboard, plastics and bioplastics waste for Canada and the United States, and for Mexico. A pilot study on composting poly-coated fiber food packaging for Canada and the United States complements this series. Together, these publications aim to accelerate the adoption of CE practices and promote strategies for the sustainable management of these materials, generating economic and environmental benefits across the region.
The complete report is available in English only, but you can consult the executive summary in English, Spanish and French.
