News

World Water Day 2025: CEC Launches New Portal on Indigenous Approaches to Freshwater Management in North America

On this World Water Day 2025, the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) is proud to launch a new portal on Indigenous Approaches to Freshwater Management in North America. By bringing together insights, testimonies and knowledge, this portal documents diverse Indigenous approaches, challenges and relationships to freshwater, and provides recommendations to decision-makers on how to better consider and respect Indigenous rights and...

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

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, the physical surface of the Earth, and its changes over time. Open Data Day is a global celebration that promotes awareness and use of open and publicly accessible data for everyone. Join...

March 4, 2025

Join Us for the North American Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (PRTR) Initiative Meeting!

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 about pollution reporting, sustainable industry, and access to environmental information across North America. Participants will have the opportunity to learn from and exchange with PRTR program representatives about activities and progress relative to reporting...

February 13, 2025

Meet Our New 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 into our programs and initiatives. It also acknowledges the importance of community engagement as well as the vital role of Indigenous Knowledge and perspectives in advancing...

February 6, 2025

Advisory Groups and Public Participation

Members of the CEC Council Authorize the Development of a Factual Record Regarding the North Atlantic Right Whale Submission

Tiohtià:ke (Montreal), 22 January 2025—The members of the Council of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), in Council Resolution 25-01 unanimously decided to instruct the CEC Secretariat to develop a factual record regarding submission SEM-21-003 (North Atlantic right whale). The submission asserts that the United States is failing to effectively enforce the Endangered Species Act, Marine Mammal Protection Act, and National Environmental Policy Act...

January 22, 2025