Tiohtià:ke (Montreal), 3 September 2025 — Yesterday, Prodefensa del Nazas, A.C., an organization based in Mexico, filed a submission under Chapter 24 of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA/CUSMA) with the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC). The Submitter asserts that Mexico is failing to effectively enforce its environmental laws to protect the Nazas River, particularly its riverbanks and lower basin in the states of Durango and Coahuila....
September 3, 2025
Tiohtià:ke (Montreal), 19 August 2025 — On August 18 the Secretariat of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) published the factual record regarding submission SEM-21-002 (Vaquita Porpoise) filed on 11 August 2021 by the Center for Biological Diversity, Animal Welfare Institute, Natural Resources Defense Council, and Environmental Investigation Agency (“Submitters”), who asserted that Mexico is failing to effectively enforce its environmental laws with regard to...
August 19, 2025
Introducing the CEC’s Youth Engagement Strategy In 2024, the CEC launched its first three-year Youth Engagement Strategy (YES). Building on past efforts, the 2024–2026 strategy identifies challenges and opportunities for meaningful youth engagement across the CEC’s activities, work programs and networking spaces to foster meaningful youth participation, strengthen community capacity and ensure long-term sustainability of engagement approaches. Read the strategy here....
August 12, 2025
Mexico City (Mexico), 25 July 2025 — The top environmental officials from Canada, Mexico and the United States met in Mexico City this week for the 32nd annual Council Session and Joint Public Advisory Committee (JPAC) Public Forum of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC). Hosted under the theme “Nexus Between Circular Economy and Nature-based Solutions in North America,” the session marked a strong reaffirmation of trilateral cooperation on urgent environmental priorities. The...
July 25, 2025
Tiohtià:ke (Montreal), 14 July 2025 — On 3 July 2025, the Secretariat of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) published the factual record regarding submission SEM-18-003 (Hydraulic Fracturing in Nuevo Leon) in accordance with the CEC Council’s unanimous vote in Council Resolution 25-02. The factual record is the final step in the CEC’s Submissions on Enforcement Matters (SEM) process, which allows individuals, organizations and entities across North...
July 14, 2025
Tiohtià:ke (Montreal), 9 July 2025 — The International Monarch Monitoring Blitz returns for its ninth edition from 25 July to 3 August 2025, inviting individuals and organizations across Canada, Mexico and the United States to come together in a unique cross-border effort to protect one of North America's most iconic species: the monarch butterfly. Given the vast range of monarch butterflies and their host plant, milkweed, the contribution...
July 9, 2025
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Georgina O’Farrill
Head, Communications, Outreach and Engagement
