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Short-Lived Climate Pollutants

2024 Active SubTopic

Fast Mitigation Strategies for Short-Lived Climate Pollutants

Methane is a short-lived climate pollutant (SLCP) and a potent greenhouse gas. At the 2023 North American Leaders Submit (NALS), Canada, Mexico and the United States recognized “the urgency for...

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Food Systems

2024 Active Ecosystems

Resilience of Indigenous Peoples Traditional Food Systems

Food security is one of the major global challenges facing humanity today. The climate crisis and the depletion of natural resources have put an increased strain on food production. Therefore,...

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2023 Active Green Growth

Stimulating Behavioral Changes to Reduce Food Loss and Waste (FLW) in North America and Expanded Promotion and Uptake of Related CEC FLW Resources

The CEC Council has acknowledged the importance to further build upon the success of past CEC FLW projects, and continue to demonstrate CEC leadership and visibility to support FLW reduction...

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Informed Substitution

2023 Active Pollutants

Scoping Project on a North American Center for Informed Substitution

The presence of chemicals of concern in a broad range of products can be associated with risks. Many of these chemicals, their chemical substitutes, and their transformation products can negatively...

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Electronics sector

2022 Active Green Growth

Opportunities for Circularity in the North American Electronics Sector: Phase 1

Linear models of economic production and consumption place a high demand on natural resources and accelerate environmental degradation. This in turn translates into increased business risks through higher costs, as...

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Timber

2024 Active

Advancing Responsible Purchasing of Wood Products

Illegal logging, and the trade in illegally logged timber, is a domestic, regional, and global issue. It has negative economic, environmental, and social impacts, including—but not limited to—forest degradation, loss...

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Reaching Horizon 2030

2024 Active Climate Change

Reaching Horizon 2030: An Environmental Outlook for North American Cooperation

The initiative Reaching Horizon 2030: An Environmental Outlook for North American Cooperation (H-2030) will assess significant environmental challenges to 2030 that can be addressed through the CEC, providing critical information...

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2023 Active Climate Change

Communities for Environmental Justice Network

Since April 2023, the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) has supported the creation of a trinational network to facilitate the exchange of community-based expertise, lessons learned, and practical guidance between...

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