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
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
Explore our new online toolbox and learn from proven, successful monarch conservation initiatives applied across North America Montreal, 12 December 2017—The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) has launched a new website aimed at increasing participation in conservation efforts for North America's most iconic butterfly. Through the CEC's Monarch Conservation Toolbox, farmers, landowners and the general public can explore best management practices,...
December 12, 2017
JPAC issues recommendations on the future of NAFTA’s environmental side agreement and the CEC Montreal, 28 November 2017—The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) is a unique catalyst for environmental cooperative action at the North American and international levels, the Joint Public Advisory Committee (JPAC) of the CEC heard on 9 November at the committee’s last session of 2017. "With renegotiation...
November 28, 2017
Nine community-based environmental projects across North America to receive funding Montreal, 27 November 2017—The Council of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) today announced funding for nine innovative local projects under its North American Partnership for Environmental Community Action (NAPECA) grant program. NAPECA supports small, nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Canada, Mexico and the United States that work closely with local...
November 28, 2017
Mapping experts from Canada, Mexico and the United States collaborate through the CEC’s North American Land Change Monitoring System to produce new continental map Montreal, 2 November 2017—A new map produced by the trinational North American Land Change Monitoring System (NALCMS) and supported by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) depicts year 2010 land cover across North America at 30-meter...
November 2, 2017
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Georgina O’Farrill
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