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This Food Waste Prevention Week, Join the CEC and Partners for Webinars on Reducing Food Waste
Calling all families, school food professionals, educators and volunteers! Are you curious about what happens to the food we don’t consume? Do you want to dive into the world of food waste activities and opportunities in school cafeterias, communities and households?
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Climate Change
Supporting emissions reduction and helping communities adapt to extreme weather events
Ecosystems
Working with communities to conserve and restore North America's terrestrial and marine ecosystems and priority species
Enforcement
Supporting enforcement and compliance with domestic environmental law and with multilateral environmental agreements
Green Growth
Innovative joint approaches to support sustainable economic development, trade and consumption
Pollutants
Promoting clean air, water and land through prevention, reductions, and sound management of pollutant releases, toxic chemicals and hazardous waste
Featured Project
Transitioning Remote Communities to Renewable Energy
2022 Active Climate Change
Providing access to affordable, reliable and clean energy for all is a global challenge. Advancements in renewable energy sources and enabling technologies (e.g., storage), as well as their decentralized nature, represent available and realistic options for supplying access to low-cost and sustainable electricity in remote communities. Under...
Featured Publication
Smithfield Foods
Going beyond diversion saves 3.8 million protein servings!
June 20, 2023 3 pages Green Growth
As part of its industry leading sustainability program, Smithfield Foods strives to maximize the social, environmental and economic value of food. To do so, the company is committed to reducing food loss and waste. At its facility in Junction City, Kansas, a process-level prevention assessment with Enviro-Stewards identified and implemented measures that have reduced food loss to rendering by 30% and retained 3.8 million protein servings (943,400 lbs.) per year in the food supply chain.
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Assistant, Outreach and Partnerships & Communications Units
Job Opportunities
Deadline: March 29, 2024 5:00pm
Salary/Budget: CAD 46,000.00 - CAD 52,000.00
Location: Montreal, Quebec
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We conduct research, provide tools and training, and provide a unique space for decision-makers and the public to engage on environmental policy issues affecting the North American region.