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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.

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Trilateral Data Exchange System on the Import and Export of Hazardous Waste – Maintenance, Implementation, Testing and Launch of US-Mexico API Exchange in Production

2021 Active Enforcement

Pursuant to relevant regulations, Canada, Mexico and the United States control the import and export of hazardous wastes by exchanging notice and consent prior to shipping these wastes across their borders. In the context of CEC´s 2019-2020 Operational Plan, the CEC supported the countries to update their Notice and Consent...

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Long-term Impact Assessment of the North American Environmental Atlas and the North American Land Change Monitoring System (1996–2016)

March 24, 2022 4 pages Climate Change Ecosystems

Because our environment does not end at the border, the CEC has developed over the last 22 years a unique framework that harmonizes geographic information in a seamless manner across North America’s political boundaries. Its North American Environmental Atlas aims at better monitoring environmental trends and land-cover changes in the region.

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