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A hundred ways to sustain grasslands and ranchers now at your fingertips: new online tool corrals best practices from across North America

The Commission for Environmental Cooperation launches a new online tool featuring beneficial management practices from across the continent to maintain native grasslands and sustain ranchers’ livelihoods. Montreal, 7 May 2014—A new online tool is being launched today with nearly 100 beneficial management practices aimed at ranchers, conservation organizations, government and academic institutions in North America. Ranging from local techniques to...

May 7, 2014

EVENT UPDATE: Mexican Environment Secretary to join sustainable and healthy housing experts from across North America, in the city of Oaxaca, Mexico

Agenda released for public consultation to be hosted by CEC advisory committee. Montreal, 6 May 2014—Whether in a small Alaskan village where wood-burning in homes leads to poor indoor air quality, or an indigenous community in Chiapas without access to affordable sources of energy, barriers to building healthy, sustainable housing remain a major concern for a number of indigenous communities...

May 5, 2014

CEC releases conservation priorities for more than three million acres of contiguous, protected areas on both sides of US-Mexico border

The Commission for Environmental Cooperation releases the Big Bend-Río Bravo Conservation Assessment, the latest result of over 20 years of environmental cooperation in North America Montreal, 23 April 2014—Today, the CEC released its Conservation Assessment for the Big Bend-Río Bravo Region: A Binational Collaborative Approach to Conservation, which identifies 29 priority conservation areas in a region straddling the United States-Mexico border that...

April 22, 2014

Enter the North American Photo Challenge to win a trip to Canada’s beautiful and majestic North

To celebrate 20 years of environmental cooperation and our shared biodiversity, the CEC is hosting a continent-wide photo competition. Montreal, 10 April 2014—The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) of North America wants your photographic vision of our shared biodiversity. In 2014, the CEC will celebrate 20 years of successful environmental partnerships in North America. To mark this milestone in Canada,...

April 9, 2014

CEC delivers final factual record regarding the Coal-fired Power Plants submission

Montreal, 4 April 2014—On 11 March 2014, the Secretariat of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) submitted to the CEC Council a final factual record on submission SEM-04-005 (Coal-fired Power Plants). The submission was filed on 20 September 2004, by Friends of the Earth Canada, Friends of the Earth-US, Earthroots, Centre for Environmentally Sustainable Development, Great Lakes United, Pollution Probe,...

April 3, 2014

SAVE THE DATE: CEC to celebrate 20 years of environmental cooperation at upcoming Council Session in Canada’s North

Mark your calendar today to join North America’s environment ministers live or via webcast in the far northern regions of North America for the 21st annual Session of the CEC Council Montreal, 27 March 2014—On 17 July 2014, Canadian Minister of Environment Leona Aglukkaq will host this year’s Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) Council Session, in the City of Yellowknife,...

March 26, 2014