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
Montreal, 13 June 2017—In an unanimous vote, the Council of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) has directed the Secretariat, through Council Resolution 17-03, to develop a factual record concerning the Agricultural Waste Burning in Sonora submission. Filed in January 2016, the submission, from a submitter residing in Mexico who requested that their identity remain confidential, asserts that the municipality of Caborca,...
June 13, 2017
Montreal, 5 June 2017—The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) is celebrating World Environment Day with the release of a video highlighting 10 simple actions North American citizens can do to help protect the monarch butterfly and its habitat along its migratory corridors in Canada, Mexico and the United States. Produced in partnership with Environment and Climate Change Canada, Parks Canada,...
June 5, 2017
Montreal, 1 June 2017—The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) and the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC) invite North Americans to join the increasing number of communities using the Local Environmental Observer (LEO) Network, a unique observation platform where traditional ecological knowledge, local knowledge and science converge to record and highlight instances of unusual change in nature and the environment....
June 1, 2017
Join our citizen advisory committee's meeting in-person in Charlottetown, or online via webcast Montreal, 29 May 2017—On 27 June, the Commission for Environmental Cooperation’s (CEC) Joint Public Advisory Committee (JPAC) will host a public meeting in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, on water-related issues and opportunities to promote sustainable job growth and economic prosperity in coastal, shoreline, and riverbank communities...
May 29, 2017
This article originally appeared on the National Wildlife Federation Blog In September 2015, the National Wildlife Federation launched the Mayors’ Monarch Pledge in in an effort to engage cities, towns, counties and communities of all kinds to join the effort to help save the Monarch butterfly. Mayor Francis Slay of St. Louis, Missouri proudly became the first to take the pledge, followed...
May 19, 2017
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Georgina O’Farrill
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