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Join CEC advisory committee forum in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on building local resilience to extreme weather events
Join via livestream at www.cec.org/livestream Montreal, 25 September 2019—Floods, drought, hurricanes, wildfires and other extreme weather events are on the rise globally. As North American communities face the reality of increasing climate variability, building local resilience has become a shared priority for communities and all levels of government in Canada, Mexico and the United States. On October 24, the Commission for Environmental Cooperation’s...
September 25, 2019
The Third Trinational Monarch Monitoring Blitz Was a Success Thanks to You
Montreal, 29 August 2019—The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) is pleased to announce the results of the third annual Trinational Monarch Monitoring Blitz (the Blitz). For a week, hundreds of volunteers in Canada, Mexico and the United States helped monarch experts gain more information to enable better understanding of the distribution of the migratory monarch butterfly, an emblematic North American species....
August 30, 2019
Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) Launches C$1.5 Million Grant Program on Adaptation to Extreme Events
Submit your application to the North American Partnership for Environmental community Action (NAPECA) by 6 September 2019 Montreal, 24 July 2019—The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) is calling for grant applications from organizations seeking to enhance their community’s ability to prepare for and respond and adapt to such extreme events as droughts, floods, wildfires, and extreme temperatures. Canada, Mexico, and the United...
July 24, 2019
Help Conserve Monarch Butterflies by Being Part of a Monitoring Network across North America
Follow the Blitz on social media at #MonarchBlitz Montreal, 17 July 2019—Join hundreds of volunteers in Canada, Mexico and the United States, from 27 July to 4 August, for the 2019 International Monarch Monitoring Blitz (the Blitz) and be part of this regional initiative to help conserve the monarch butterfly. By participating, you can help monarch experts gain more information to understand...
July 17, 2019
CEC receives submission on cross border water pollution in Lake Memphremagog
Montreal, 12 July 2019—On 5 July 2019, the organization Memphremagog Conservation Inc. (the “Submitter”) filed a submission with the CEC Secretariat, asserting that both the United States and Canada are failing to effectively enforce environmental laws with respect to water pollution in Lake Memphremagog, which straddles the US/Canadian border in northern Vermont/southern Quebec. In submission SEM-19-003 (Lake Memphremagog), the Submitter asserts that the two countries...
July 12, 2019
Commission for Environmental Cooperation Bids Farewell to César Rafael Chávez
Montreal, July 11, 2019—Monday, July 15 will mark the last day of Executive Director César Rafael Chávez’s term leading the CEC Secretariat in Montreal, Canada. Chávez joined the CEC in January 2016, after more than 30 years of environmental planning experience in the public, private, social and academic sectors at both the national and international level, including at the Mexican...
July 11, 2019
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