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Save the Date: 26-27 June, Commission for Environmental Cooperation’s governing Council to meet in Oklahoma City
Participate in person or via webcast in a public forum on Innovation and Partnerships for Green Growth Montreal, 22 February 2018—On 26–27 June 2018, US Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt will host his counterparts from Mexico and Canada in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, for the annual Regular Session of the Council of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC). The Council, the...
February 22, 2018
Meet the experts who will evaluate North America’s most promising green ideas
Idea evaluation panel announced for the 2018 CEC Youth Innovation Challenge Montreal, 13 February 2018—Nine experts on the frontier of sustainable innovation in North America will serve on the idea evaluation panel for the 2018 Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) Youth Innovation Challenge. With backgrounds in startup ventures, corporate sustainability, academic collaboration and technical know-how, these experts will bring diverse...
February 13, 2018
CEC receives a submission on Mexico City Metrobús Line 7 Project
Montreal, 6 February 2018—On 2 February 2018, Academia Mexicana de Derecho Ambiental and La Voz de Polanco (the “Submitters”) filed a submission with the CEC Secretariat, asserting that Mexican federal authorities, the government of Mexico City (CDMX), and three of its boroughs are failing to effectively enforce environmental laws with respect to the construction of Line 7 of the bus rapid transit system ("Metrobús"). In SEM-18-002 (Mexico...
February 6, 2018
CEC receives a submission on transboundary impacts from agricultural burning in Mexico
Montreal, 16 January 2018—On 10 January 2018, the Secretariat of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) received a submission from a resident of the Tohono O’odham Indian Nation in the United States along the US (Arizona)/Mexican border, asserting that her village is being impacted by “unannounced episodes of smoke drift from Mexico (agricultural burns).” According to documents filed by the...
January 16, 2018
Skyrocket your green idea! Commission for Environmental Cooperation Launches Second Youth Innovation Challenge
Enter our challenge to compete for $5,000 in seed funding and present your green growth idea to North American environmental leaders in Oklahoma City Montreal, 15 January 2018—Show us what you’ve got! North American environmental ministers are calling on youth to champion bold ideas for green growth to address the complex sustainability challenges we currently face. Visit cec.ideascale.com to submit...
January 15, 2018
Commission for Environmental Cooperation announces Gustavo Alanís-Ortega as Chair of its advisory committee
Renowned Mexican environmental lawyer Gustavo Alanís-Ortega to lead JPAC in 2018 Montreal, 14 December 2017—The Commission for Environmental Cooperation's (CEC) Joint Public Advisory Committee (JPAC) has unanimously elected Mexican JPAC member Gustavo Alanís-Ortega as committee chair for 2018. He will succeed US JPAC member Robert Varney, former New England regional Administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency, who served as...
December 14, 2017
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