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
Commission for Environmental Cooperation and its Joint Public Advisory Committee to host public forum in Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico, 12–13 May 2014. The forum will be webcast live. Montreal, 24 March 2014—Barriers to building healthy, sustainable homes remain a major concern for a number of remote communities in North America, as well as many indigenous communities. To discuss the opportunities and...
March 24, 2014
Montreal, 20 March 2014—On 11 March 2014, the Council of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) agreed, in factual record concerning submission SEM-05-003 (Environmental Pollution in Hermosillo II), filed with the Secretariat on 30 August 2005, by Academia Sonorense de Derechos Humanos, A.C., and Domingo Gutiérrez Mendívil (the “Submitters”). On 27 November 2013, the CEC Secretariat delivered to the Council a final...
March 19, 2014
Latest maps from the Commission for Environmental Cooperation’s (CEC) North American Land Change Monitoring System show impact of natural and human-caused events Montreal, 11 March 2014—A new set of maps featured in the CEC’s North American Environmental Atlas depicts land cover changes in North America’s forests, prairies, deserts and cities, using satellite images from 2005 and 2010. These changes can be attributed...
March 10, 2014
Montreal, 5 March 2014—On 12 November 2013, the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) Secretariat requested a response to submission SEM-13-001 (Tourism Development in the Gulf of California) (PDF) from the Government of Mexico. On 24 February 2014, the Secretariat received the requested response (PDF). In submission SEM-13-001, a group of organizations, represented by the Asociación Interamericana para la Defensa del Ambiente (AIDA) and Earthjustice, assert that...
March 4, 2014
The Council of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation announces winners of the NAPECA grant program. The Council of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), composed of the highest-level environmental authorities from Canada, Mexico, and the United States, today awarded $1.2 million in grants under CEC’s North American Partnership for Environmental Community Action (NAPECA) program for 18 new projects that will...
March 3, 2014
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