In the Spotlight
International Youth Day 2024: YIC & CEC Youth Engagement
Happy International Youth Day! Since 2010, the international community has celebrated 12 August as a day to bring youth issues to the forefront and celebrate the potential of youth as critical partners in addressing today’s challenges.
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
Addressing Ghost Gear in North America
2022 Active Ecosystems
Featured Publication
Big Bend-Río Bravo Collaboration for Transboundary Landscape Conservation
Long-term Impact Assessment
January 27, 2023 6 pages Ecosystems
From 2011 to 2015, the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) conducted the project Big Bend-Río Bravo Collaboration for Transboundary Landscape Conservation. Its objective was “conserving the unique biological diversity in the Big Bend-Río Bravo region of Mexico and the United States, using sound scientific data on challenges to ecosystem resilience to address the region’s growing vulnerability to biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation, and providing a model for collaboration among different decision makers and partnerships focused on transboundary conservation work in other areas” (CEC, 2011).
Work With Us
Long-Term Impact Assessment of CEC’s work on Conservation of Migratory Birds (2015–2019)
Consultant Opportunities
Deadline: August 30, 2024 5:00pm
Salary/Budget: The budget will not exceed C$22,000 (Canadian dollars).
Assistant, Outreach and Partnerships & Communications Units
Job Opportunities
Deadline: September 13, 2024 5:00pm
Salary/Budget: CAD 48,000.00 to CAD 54,000.00
Location: Montreal, Quebec
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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.