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The International Monarch Monitoring Blitz is a community science initiative open to anyone in North America. Each year, the Monarch Blitz takes place over a 10-day period, starting on the last Friday of July and ending on the Sunday of the following week.
A unique trinational organization advancing a regional approach to environmental cooperation and creating linkages across Canada, Mexico and the United States to address emerging and complex environmental challenges.
CEC projects bring together experts, governments and communities to share knowledge, build capacity, pilot scalable solutions and strengthen cooperation, turning shared goals into action for North America’s environment.
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The CEC's North American Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (NAPRTR) Initiative promotes public access to data and information reported by industrial facilities in North America, in order to improve understanding of the sources and management of pollutants of common concern across the region and support decision-making relative to pollution prevention...
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Factual Record Regarding Submission SEM-19-002
On 16 April 2019, the organization Acción Colectiva Socioambiental, A.C. (hereafter the “Submitter”) filed a submission with the Secretariat, in accordance with the provisions of NAAEC Article 14(1). The Submitter asserts that Mexico is failing to effectively enforce its environmental law in relation to the City Park Project, in the City of León, Guanajuato, Mexico. At the time this submission was filed, the City Park Project was under construction.
The Submitter asserts that Mexico is failing to effectively enforce provisions of General Act on Ecological Balance and Environmental Protection (Ley General del Equilibrio Ecológico y la Protección al Ambiente—LGEEPA); the LGEEPA Regulations on Environmental Impact Assessment (Reglamento de la LGEEPA en Materia de Evaluación de Impacto Ambiental—REIA); the General Wildlife Act (Ley General de Vida Silvestre—LGVS); the Internal Regulations of the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources (Reglamento Interior de la Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales—RI-Semarnat); the Environmental Protection and Preservation Act of the State of Guanajuato (Ley para la Protección y Preservación del Ambiente del estado de Guanajuato—LPPAEG); the LPPAEG Regulations on Environmental Impact Assessment (Reglamento de la LPPAEG en Materia de Evaluación del Impacto Ambiental—REIA-Guanajuato); the Environmental Management Bylaw of the City of León, Guanajuato (Reglamento para la Gestión Ambiental del Municipio de León, Guanajuato—RGA-León or the “Municipal Bylaw”); and Official Mexican Standard NOM-059-Semarnat-2010, Environmental protection—Native flora and fauna species of Mexico-Risk categories and specifications for species inclusion, exclusion
or amendments—List of species at risk (NOM-059).
