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Join the CEC’s 2024 Youth Engagement Week Workshop: Youth Perspectives on Reaching Horizon 2030
On 27 November, participate in the 2024 CEC Youth Engagement Week (YEW) workshop! This event will provide a unique opportunity for youth to learn about the CEC’s Joint Public Advisory Committee and, in particular, its public consultation process on CEC’s “Reaching Horizon 2030: An Environmental Outlook for North American Cooperation” (H-2030) initiative.
Topics
Climate Change
Supporting emissions reduction and helping communities adapt to extreme weather events
Environmental Justice
The pursuit of environmental justice (EJ) aims to address historical inequities, marginalization and discrimination in how environmental benefits and burdens are enjoyed or suffered by certain communities.
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
Youth Engagement
Over the years, the CEC has been committed to youth engagement and the efforts supported have provided youth with opportunities to raise awareness, provide tangible, sustainable, and innovative solutions for environmental issues in their communities, and influence CEC’s strategies, projects, and initiatives.
Featured Project
Using Volunteer Observer Networks to Monitor Precipitation and Wildfires
2019 - 2020 Active Climate Change
Featured Publication
Guide to the Inventory of CEC initiatives with Indigenous engagement (1995-2018)
October 18, 2019 31 pages Ecosystems
As part of the North American TEK Atlas project, the present guide is a companion to the Inventory of CEC initiatives that have included Indigenous engagement. This inventory spans the entire history of CEC activities, from 1995 to December 2018. It involved keyword-based research from the CEC website and publication archives as well as discussions with CEC Secretariat staff to identify most initiatives.
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What We Do
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.