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Environmentalist Louie Porta to Lead the CEC’s Joint Public Advisory Committee
Montreal, 12 January 2022—We are pleased to announce that leading Canadian environmentalist Louie Porta will chair the Commission for Environmental Cooperation’s (CEC) Joint Public Advisory Committee (JPAC) for 2022. Louie Porta is the Executive Director of Oceans North, one of Canada’s largest ocean-focused charities. Louie has spent his career working with Indigenous and coastal communities in Canada and internationally, to...
January 12, 2022
New CEC Publications Library
Did you know that the Commission for Environmental Cooperation has published over 700 articles, reports and publications since our inception in 1995? Now we have a brand new publications library that makes browsing our titles even easier. If you are interested in environmental topics like climate change, pollution or the enforcement of environmental laws, we have a publication for you! We have...
December 15, 2021
JPAC Hosts Working Meeting on CEC’s Collaborative Work Program and Ongoing Initiatives
For the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, the Joint Public Advisory Committee (JPAC) held a hybrid working meeting in Montreal on December 9 and 10, 2021. The working meeting provided a venue to discuss enhanced collaboration on environmental action in North America. Further, JPAC members identified priority topics to be addressed as part of their 2022 Annual...
December 15, 2021
CEC Council votes for the development of a factual record for the City Park project in the city of León, Guanajuato, Mexico
Montreal, 30 November 2021—The Council of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) voted unanimously, in Council Resolution 21-05, to instruct the CEC Secretariat to develop a factual record with regards to Submission SEM-19-002 (City Park). The submission asserts that Mexico is failing to effectively enforce federal, state and municipal laws in relation to the environmental impact assessment (EIA) process for the City Park...
November 30, 2021
NAPECA Grant Program: C$1.5 Million to Support a Resilient Community Recovery from COVID-19
Montreal, 23 November 2021—The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) is calling for grant applications from organizations to support environmental initiatives that help North American communities implement solutions and strengthen their capacities to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and increase their resilience. “The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the most vulnerable and underserved communities have created an urgency to direct...
November 23, 2021
NAPECA Grant Program: C$1.5 Million to Support a Resilient Community Recovery from COVID-19
Montreal, 23 November 2021—The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) is calling for grant applications from organizations to support environmental initiatives that help North American communities implement solutions and strengthen their capacities to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and increase their resilience. “The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the most vulnerable and underserved communities have created an urgency to direct...
November 23, 2021
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