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Why and How to Measure Food Loss and Waste: A Practical Guide 2.0
Montreal, 15 March 2021 — North America’s Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) is launching a revised practical guide for measuring food loss and waste. Why and How to Measure Food Loss and Waste: A Practical Guide 2.0 implements findings from focused testing with a diverse set of businesses and organizations across North America. The user-friendly guide empowers a wide range of stakeholders,...
March 15, 2021
CEC receives its 100th submission on enforcement matters regarding a port expansion project in Canada
Montreal, 16 February 2021 —On 8 February 2021, a new submission was filed under Chapter 24 of the new United States- Mexico-Canada trade agreement (USMCA/CUSMA) with the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC). In Submission SEM-21-001 (Fairview Terminal) the Submitter asserts that the Prince Rupert Port Authority, as an agent of the Government of Canada, is failing to effectively enforce the Canadian Environmental Assessment...
February 16, 2021
Economist Dr. Pedro Moctezuma Barragán to lead the CEC’s Joint Public Advisory Committee
Montreal, 20 January 2021—We are pleased to announce that leading Mexican academic Dr. Pedro Moctezuma Barragán will chair the Commission for Environmental Cooperation’s (CEC) Joint Public Advisory Committee (JPAC) for 2021. Dr. Moctezuma is an economist from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, with a PhD in Planning and Development from the Faculty of Social and Environmental Studies at the...
January 21, 2021
CEC receives first submission under Chapter 24 of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement
Montreal, 7 January 2021—On 17 December 2020, the Mexican Center for Environmental Law and the Center for Biological Diversity filed the first submission under Chapter 24 of the new United States- Mexico-Canada trade agreement (USMCA/CUSMA) with the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC). The Submitters assert that Mexico is failing to effectively enforce its environmental laws with respect to the conservation of the loggerhead turtle along the...
January 7, 2021
New Land Cover Change Maps Show Human Impact on our Environment
Today, our North American Land Change Monitoring System released a new map product depicting land cover change across North America from 2010 to 2015 at a 30-metre spatial resolution. Our 2010-2015 change maps tell a story of changes in the North American environment over this time period: landslides, oil sands expansion, water-level changes, deforestation or forest recovery, conversion to cropland,...
November 18, 2020
Meet our New Director of Legal Affairs and Submissions on Enforcement Matters
Montreal, 28 October 2020—We are pleased to announce that Paolo Solano, former Legal Officer, will be assuming the role of Director of Legal Affairs and Submissions on Enforcement Matters (SEM). Since joining the CEC in 2006, Paolo Solano has served in the SEM unit with special duties to process and respond to public submissions regarding the effective enforcement of environmental...
October 28, 2020
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