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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
Preventing and Reducing Food Loss and Waste
2019 - 2020 Active Green Growth
Featured Publication
Identifying and compiling information on Indigenous and local communities in possession of traditional environmental knowledge (TEK) in Mexico
[Document available in Spanish only]
January 3, 2019 102 pages
This report was written as part of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation’s project to compile a North American Atlas on Traditional Environmental Knowledge. Its principal objective is to identify and compile information on the frameworks and mechanisms applicable in Mexico regarding the participation of Indigenous communities there in TEK-related projects. As such, it will serve in decision-making on future CEC work and promote collaboration with Indigenous Peoples and communities. This report is solely descriptive in nature and does not aim to assess the efficacy of these mechanisms.
This Mexico-focused report is one of three; the two other reports focus on Canada and the United States respectively.
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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.