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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
Advancing Supply Chain Transparency for Chemicals in Products
2022 Active
Featured Publication
Proceedings of the Trinational Monarch Science Meeting
Moving Forward on the Conservation of the Monarch Butterfly in North America
August 10, 2022 34 pages Ecosystems
As part of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation’s (CEC) project; Science for Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Conservation, this meeting convened government experts, researchers and key stakeholders from Canada, Mexico and the United States to share novel research and scientific findings on the monarch butterfly, establish further collaborations for data sharing, and identify trinational research and monitoring priorities to support monarch butterfly and pollinator research in North America.
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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.