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Promote Green Buildings for Biggest, Easiest Cuts in North American CO2 Emissions, says new CEC report
Vancouver, 3/13/2008 - Promoting the green design, construction, renovation and operation of buildings could cut North American greenhouse gas emissions that are fuelling climate change more deeply, quickly and cheaply than any other available measure, according to a new report issued by the trinational Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC). North America's buildings cause the annual release of more than 2,200...
March 13, 2008
Invitation to the Fourth JPAC Regular Session of 2007: Submissions on Enforcement Matters; From Lessons Learned to Following up Factual Records
Montreal, 10/30/2007-The Joint Public Advisory Committee (JPAC) will be holding its fourth meeting of 2007 in San Antonio, Texas, on 6 December. The session entitled "Submissions on Enforcement Matters; From Lessons Learned to Following up Factual Records," will have as a main objective engaging people who have experienced, studied, written about, and been a part of the SEM process in...
October 30, 2007
JPAC calls for comments on CEC’s proposed 2008 projects
Montreal, 10/29/2007-The Joint Public Advisory Committee (JPAC) of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) is requesting public input on the CEC's proposed Operational Plan for 2008. The CEC's Operational Plan describes cooperative action to protect and enhance the North American environment. It is focused on implementation of program priorities established by the CEC Council-the environment ministers or equivalent of Canada,...
October 29, 2007
Green building rating systems top agenda at Mexico workshop
Montreal, 10/22/2007 - Green building experts meeting in Cocoyoc, Morelos, Mexico, this week are taking steps toward developing rating systems for sustainable building in Mexico. Organized by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) the two-day workshop provides an opportunity for leaders of Mexico's burgeoning green building movement and international experts to review the development of rating systems for green building...
October 22, 2007
Committee to review NAFTA’s environmental side accord
A six-member, independent committee appointed by the Council of the CEC—composed of the environment ministers, or equivalent, for Canada, Mexico and the United States—will review the operations and effectiveness of NAFTA's environmental side accord, the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC). The committee, announced in October, is expected to prepare a report of its finding by the spring of...
August 3, 2003
CEC releases discussion papers examining effects of genetically modified corn on Mexican maize
Montreal, 1/6/2003 - The Secretariat of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) today released a set of discussion papers to launch a formal study on the potential effects of genetically modified corn on traditional maize agriculture in Mexico. The papers outline the authors' perspectives on the ecological, biological, economic and socio-cultural effects of transgenes on Mexican varieties of maize. Their...
January 6, 2003
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