Drought Summit
This meeting will bring together experts and water/drought planners and drought information users to discuss current experiences and develop recommendations for improving the access to and use of drought products, tools, and best practices in order to better address the drought planning needs of North American regional and local decision-makers. Meeting Objectives: Convene and connect […]
Remote Sensing Early Warning Systems for Floods
Workshop to build the capacities of local and regional first responders, emergency managers, and decision-makers relative to obtaining and using real-time satellite imagery in the preparation and response to these events.
2020 Youth Innovation Challenge winning solutions
The winners of the 2020 Youth Innovation Challenge will present their innovative solutions to the EcoInnovation Network members and Youth Ambassadors. This will be an extraordinary occasion to identify opportunities for collaboration, mentorship and guidance for the winners. It will also provide EcoInnovation Network Youth Ambassadors with tools and knowledge on the development of entrepreneurship […]
The Public Submissions Process on Effective Environmental Enforcement (SEM) under the USMCA/CUSMA/T-MEC
Panelists will give an overview of the USMCA/CUSMA/T-MEC and ECA and discuss Chapter 24 (Environment), which will enter into force on July 1, 2020, and cover how the SEM process will differ under the new regime. Recent graduates and current students will give their perspectives on the new SEM process. Panelists will discuss the future […]
Workshops on methods for assessing the costs of floods
As part of the CEC’s 2019-2020 project, Costing Floods and Other Extreme Events, this workshop is to convene experts from Indigenous, research and academic organizations, to discuss the incorporation of Indigenous perspectives in a proposed standardized North American methodology for costing floods and to evaluate its potential application to the assessment of the costs of cascading […]
CEC Council Session and JPAC Forum
Join us for live dialogues with North America’s three environment ministers and leading environmental experts to discuss the future of regional environmental collaboration and the important role of clean technology in making our communities more resilient. Given the exceptional circumstances presented by COVID-19, this year’s sessions will take place as livestreamed virtual events that are […]
Remote Sensing Early Warning Systems for Wildfires
Workshop to build the capacities of local and regional first responders, emergency managers, and decision-makers in disaster-prone regions relative to obtaining and using real-time satellite imagery in the preparation and response to these events.
Coastal Impact Mitigation and Adaptation Workshop
Organized as part of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation’s (CEC) project “Strengthening Adaptation Capacity in Marine Protected Areas”, this workshop will provide training on the use of the new online Climate Adaptation Toolkit, developed by the CEC to help marine protected area (MPA) practitioners from Canada, Mexico, and the United States adapt to climate change.
North American Pollinator Conservation Workshop
As part of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation’s (CEC) project Strengthening regional pollinator conservation to secure local benefits, this workshop convenes government experts and key stakeholders from Canada, Mexico and the United States to discuss the development of the North American Pollinator Conservation Framework, which will support informed decision-making for pollinator conservation in the three […]
Using volunteer observer networks to monitor precipitation and wildfires
Meeting to assess the feasibility of establishing and expanding the CoCoRaHs network and other citizen science observers networks to complement national and subnational observational capacities.
Public meeting of the North American PRTR Initiative
This meeting, which is being organized this year in collaboration with Canada’s National Pollutant Release Inventory (NPRI) Data Users’ workshop, will bring together individuals from industry, governments, non-governmental organizations, academia, and the public interested in environmental sustainability within North American industry. Day 1 (delivered by the NPRI), will showcase the work of advanced NPRI data […]