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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
Strengthening Adaptation Capacity in Marine Protected Areas
2019 - 2020 Active Ecosystems
Featured Publication
Long-term Impact Assessment of the CEC Monarch Butterfly Conservation Work (1996–2016)
October 18, 2019 2 pages Ecosystems
Since 1996, the Commission for Environmental Cooperation has been actively involved in the conservation of the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus), a symbol of trinational environmental cooperation between Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Although interrupted for a few years, CEC efforts to conserve the species intensified after population declines were recorded at overwintering sites in Mexico in 2005 (Rendon-Salinas and Galindo-Leal 2005).
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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.