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Winners of the 2019 CEC Youth Innovation Challenge Announced

Selected from nearly 150 participants, the winners will present their groundbreaking ideas to the CEC Council and receive C$5,000 in seed funding Montreal, 4 June 2019—The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) is pleased to announce the winners of the third Youth Innovation Challenge: Daniel Gonzalez and Noor-ur-Rahman Shaikh, Canada: IXIM - Using your waste to create change! Daniel Luna López, Omar...

June 5, 2019

CEC Presents at Clean Energy Ministerial on North American Efforts to Improve Energy Efficiency

“How-to” guide now available for manufacturers and their suppliers to achieve energy efficiency in their own facilities Montreal, 27 May 2019—The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) is helping manufacturers across North America to become more energy efficient: work that will be featured at the Tenth Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM10) from 27–29 May 2019, in Vancouver. “CEM10 is a forum showcasing the...

May 27, 2019

Join the CEC’s Governing Council in Mexico City on 24-25 June 2019

Register today for the 2019 Regular Session, focused on Circular Economy and Resource Efficiency, and join in celebrating the 25 years of the CEC Montreal, 22 May 2019—The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) invites the public to join the annual gathering of its Council, composed of the environment ministers of Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Celebrating 25 years of...

May 22, 2019

CEC Facilitates the Creation of the Trinational Monarch Knowledge Network

Montreal, 8 May 2019—Thanks to North American collaborative efforts to support monarch butterfly conservation headed by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), an open-source database is now available at www.monarchknowledge.net that brings together results from monitoring efforts on monarch butterflies and milkweed in order to help conserve the monarch and its habitat. The Trinational Monarch Knowledge Network (TMKN) is a testament to...

May 8, 2019

CEC receives submission on the City Park project in León, Guanajuato

Montreal, 1 May 2019—On 16 April 2019, the organization Acción Colectiva Socioambiental, A.C. (the “Submitter”), filed a submission with the CEC Secretariat, asserting that Mexico is failing to effectively enforce its environmental laws with respect to the City Park project in the city of León, Guanajuato, Mexico. In submission SEM-19-002 (City Park Project), the Submitter asserts that the León municipal authorities' authorization...

May 1, 2019

Join the Youth Movement to Prevent Food Waste, Protect Our Environment and Help Save the Planet

Montreal, 11 April 2019—Youth can make a positive difference to prevent food waste, from small initiatives at home to more ambitious efforts that involve the whole community, by using the Commission for Environmental Cooperation’s (CEC) new Food Matters Action Kit. Preventing food waste is one of the easiest ways we can all protect our environment every day, fight climate change,...

April 11, 2019