What Businesses Need to Know: Circular Economy for a Sustainable Future in North America
Online
July 8, 2025
3:00–4:30 PM ET
Public
Join the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) for an insightful conversation on how Circular Economy can drive innovation, efficiency and sustainable growth for your business!
During this webinar, you’ll learn about the foundations and core principles of Circular Economy, hear from regional experts and industry leaders on the benefits of circular models, and learn practical ways to apply these principles across all your operations. Specifically, this webinar will:
- Introduce the core principles of circularity
- Share real-world examples from across North America
- Explore how circular practices can benefit businesses of all sizes—including small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs)
Join us in shaping a sustainable future through private sector engagement in North America!
This webinar will be held in English and Spanish, with simultaneous interpretation provided in English, Spanish and French.
Whether you're new to circularity or looking to take the next step, this is your chance to get inspired and join the conversation ahead of #CEC32, the annual Council Session and Joint Public Advisory Committee (JPAC) Public Forum on Circular Economy and Nature-based Solutions, to be held on 24–25 July 2025, in Mexico City, Mexico, and online.
This webinar is the first in a series of three, titled “What Businesses Need to Know,” highlighting key topics for the private sector and forming part of the CEC’s ongoing efforts to engage with businesses. Learn more about our private sector strategy here.
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Agenda
Jo-Anne St. Godard
Executive Director, Circular Innovation Council
Jo-Anne St. Godard
Executive Director, Circular Innovation Council
Jo-Anne St. Godard has served as executive director of Canada’s premier environmental nongovernmental organization, Circular Innovation Council (formerly Recycling Council of Ontario), since 2001. She has over 20 years of experience in the areas of public policy design, corporate strategy and compliance, research and pilot innovations designed to accelerate Canada’s transition toward a circular economy.
Jo-Anne has worked with senior levels in both government and business, facilitating unique private and public sector partnerships that advance policies and practices that deliver on carbon emissions and waste reduction objectives. With her team she has led and designed many public programs and campaigns that engage, educate and empower.
Marisol Guerrero
Director, Sistema Economía Circular Querétaro, and Coordinator, Sustainability Committee, Automotive Cluster of Querétaro
Marisol Guerrero
Director, Sistema Economía Circular Querétaro, and Coordinator, Sustainability Committee, Automotive Cluster of Querétaro
Marisol Guerrero is an industrial engineer, with a degree from the Instituto Tecnológico de Querétaro, who also holds diplomas in environmental management (from the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, ITESM), results-based management (from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM), and administrative skills development (from the Government of Querétaro). She has acquired extensive professional experience in environmental affairs over more than three decades, has held positions in both the public and the private sectors, and currently collaborates with the Automotive Cluster of Querétaro as coordinator of the Environmental Sustainability Committee and as director of the Sistema Economía Circular Querétaro.
In the governmental sector, she has worked as director of environmental control for the Querétaro State Ministry of Sustainable Development and has led projects, including the Querétaro Vehicle Inspection Program and Air Quality Monitoring Network, the Environmental Leadership Program for Competitiveness, the development of various state industrial regulation instruments (the environmental license, the annual operating report, and the management plan for specially managed waste), a case study for the Mexican Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (PRTR), and the “cleaner industry” pilot project for the smelting and chemical industry sectors. Within the framework of the “Cities for the Climate” initiative, she collaborated with the ICLEI Network: Local Governments for Sustainability on devising strategies for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions in different industrial and economic sectors.
In addition to taking part in a course on “Integrated Waste Management in Japan” offered by the Japanese Agency for International Cooperation, she has participated as a speaker at various international and domestic forums.
Contact
Marcela Orozco
Director, Advisory Groups and Public Participation
(514) 350-4305