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From Waste to Wellness: Don’t Miss the CEC and Partners Food Waste Prevention Week Webinar!
Did you know that each year, around 170 million tonnes of food produced for human consumption are wasted or lost in Canada, Mexico and the United States? The disposal of food waste in landfills produces methane, a powerful greenhouse gas many times more potent than carbon dioxide. Food loss and waste also have environmental and socio-economic impacts, including economic and...
March 27, 2025
World Water Day 2025: CEC Launches New Portal on Indigenous Approaches to Freshwater Management in North America
For many Indigenous Peoples across North America, water is sacred and central to the spiritual, cultural and personal aspects of life. Modern governance of freshwater across North America impacts these longstanding and ongoing relationships to water and to the economic viability of traditional lifestyles. The knowledge generated from these holistic relationships, along with the transfer of intergenerational knowledge, can inform...
March 21, 2025
On 25 March, join our open session: Barriers and Opportunities to Support Indigenous-Owned Businesses and Sustainable Trade from Coast to Coast to Coast
Join the McGill Bieler School of Environment (BSE) and the Joint Public Advisory Committee (JPAC) of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), for an online Open Session, organized in collaboration with the Traditional Ecological Knowledge Expert Group (TEKEG), on supporting Indigenous-owned businesses and sustainable trade across North America! Hosted as part of the private Roundtable on Sustainable Trade in North America: Indigenous Perspectives, this session—open to...
March 17, 2025
CEC Celebrates Open Data Day with new publication from its North American Land Change Monitoring System
In celebration of International Open Data Day, the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) is pleased to release a new publication marking nearly 20 years of trinational partnership through the North American Land Change Monitoring System (NALCMS). This initiative is a collaboration between the CEC and the Governments of Canada, Mexico and the United States, along with their respective mapping agencies, to monitor land cover,...
March 4, 2025
Join Us for the North American Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (PRTR) Initiative Meeting!
Mark your calendar for the Meeting of the North American Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (PRTR) Initiative, hosted by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) in a hybrid format, on 26 and 27 February 2025. This meeting will bring together representatives of the national PRTR programs—and from other government agencies, nongovernmental organizations, industry, academia, and the public—to exchange information and ideas...
February 13, 2025
Meet Our New Director of Advisory Groups and Public Participation
We are pleased to announce that long-time CEC Secretariat professional Marcela Orozco will be taking on the role of Director of Advisory Groups and Public Participation. Effective public participation is a cornerstone of the CEC’s mission. This new position reflects the institutional importance the CEC places on ensuring that the voices of the public, communities and our partners are meaningfully integrated...
February 6, 2025
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