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CEC joins Montreal’s International Environmental Organizations to celebrate the city

Montreal, 4 August 2017—On 15 June 2017, Montreal's leading international environmental organizations gathered at the Montreal Botanical Garden for a networking event to mark the city of Montreal's 375th anniversary as well as Canada's host status for this year's World Environment Day. For the first time, representatives of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), the United Nations Secretariat of the Convention...

August 4, 2017

Group photo of César Rafael Chávez, Cristiana Paşca Palmer, Jane Hupe, Eduardo Ganem, and Christina Cook

A remarkable couple makes a difference to conserve critical shorebird habitat

Janet Darcher (JD) is a retired public administrator for the State of Washington and led the Peninsula Quilt Guild for the Connecting People Through Shorebirds Friendship Quilt project. Ed Darcher (ED) is Pacific County Spartina Coordinator. They live in a rural town near Willapa Bay, WA—an internationally-recognized important shorebird site. What can you tell us about where you live? ED:...

July 14, 2017

Photo of Janet and Ed Darcher standing at the shore

Submission filed with the CEC asserts that Canada is failing to enforce the Fisheries Act with respect to Tailings Ponds

Montreal, 7 July 2017—The Secretariat of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) received on June 26 a submission asserting that Canada is failing to effectively enforce a pollution prevention provision of the Canadian federal Fisheries Act (the “Fisheries Act”) with respect to alleged leaking of deleterious substances from oil sands tailings ponds operations in the province of Alberta, Canada. Filed by...

July 7, 2017

New trilateral environmental initiatives announced by Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC)

The CEC to take action on environmental issues of mutual concern in North America and renew community grant program Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, 28 June 2017—Today, at the 24th annual Regular Session of the Council of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), a new trilateral cooperative work program for the CEC was announced, with a strong focus on positively impacting...

June 28, 2017

INVITATION: Join our live webcast on 27 June from the CEC’s JPAC forum

Forum to focus on environmental challenges facing North American coastal, shoreline, and riverbank communities Montreal, 23 June 2017—Tune in Tuesday, 27 June, at 9:00 a.m. ADT for a Facebook Live broadcast and webcast from the public meeting of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation’s (CEC) Joint Public Advisory Committee (JPAC), featuring internationally renowned panelists from nongovernmental organizations, government agencies, academia and...

June 23, 2017

Winners of the CEC Youth Innovation Challenge Announced

North American youth receive C$5,000 in seed funding and head to Charlottetown, PEI, to present their winning innovations Montreal, 20 June 2017—After over 160 submitted ideas, 2,700 comments and 9,000 votes, the results are in! The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) congratulates the three winning project teams of the CEC Youth Innovation Challenge: Vanessa Fiore and Adam Wali, Canada: Small...

June 20, 2017