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New CEC StoryMap: “Your Environment Is Changing: But How It Changes Is up to You.”

In North America, as everywhere else on our planet, you are deeply connected with the environment in so many ways, whether you realize it or not. This interactive ‘StoryMap’ helps us better understand the world around us and demonstrates how the CEC’s North American Environmental Atlas can support action, research and decision-making. By combining images, maps and a story in...

May 1, 2023

CEC Secretariat recommends Tren Maya environmental factual record under USMCA/CUSMA Chapter 24

Montreal, 25 April 2023 — On 17 April 2023 the Secretariat of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) recommended developing a factual record to investigate the environmental impact assessment procedures for the Tren Maya project, including relevant studies and alleged fragmentation of the environmental impact studies, as well as the change in land use authorization and the implementation of the citizen complaint mechanism in relation...

April 25, 2023

CEC Receives Submission on Agave Production in Jalisco

Montreal, 13 April 2023 — On 11 April, a Mexican citizen filed a submission under Chapter 24 of the United States-Mexico-Canada trade agreement (USMCA/CUSMA) with the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC). The Submitter asserts that Mexico is failing to effectively enforce its environmental laws to protect water quality from the effects of agave cultivation in Jalisco, Mexico. In submission SEM-23-003 (Agave Production in Jalisco), the Submitter asserts that...

April 13, 2023

Deadline Extension: 2023 Youth Innovation Challenge

Help us spread the word! The deadline to submit solutions for the 2023 Youth Innovation Challenge has been extended to 10 April 2023 at 11:59 PM (local time). With the theme Water Solutions for Sustainable Development, the 2023 challenge invites North American youth, ages 18 to 30, to propose innovative solutions that address and respond to critical issues related to water including: The increase in...

April 5, 2023

CEC TEK Expert Henrietta Mann Receives National Humanities Medal from U.S. President Joe Biden

Dr. Henrietta Mann, a distinguished leader in Native American studies, and historian, activist and member of the CEC’s Traditional Ecological Knowledge Expert Group (TEKEG), was just awarded the National Humanities Medal by U.S. President Joe Biden, during a ceremony held at the White House on 21 March. Dr. Mann, a Cheyenne-Arapaho tribal leader and scholar, was honored along with other...

March 22, 2023

CEC Releases New Digital Land Cover/Land Use Map of North America, Most Accurate Available at This Scale

Montreal, 20 March 2023 — The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) is pleased to release the latest trinational digital land cover map of North America, under the North American Land Change Monitoring System (NALCMS), a collaboration with the Governments of Canada, Mexico and the United States and their respective mapping agencies. This land cover map is the most accurate map available at this scale and is publicly...

March 20, 2023