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The International Monarch Monitoring Blitz is a community science initiative open to anyone in North America. Each year, the Monarch Blitz takes place over a 10-day period, starting on the last Friday of July and ending on the Sunday of the following week.
A unique trinational organization advancing a regional approach to environmental cooperation and creating linkages across Canada, Mexico and the United States to address emerging and complex environmental challenges.
CEC projects bring together experts, governments and communities to share knowledge, build capacity, pilot scalable solutions and strengthen cooperation, turning shared goals into action for North America’s environment.
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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 rapid, coordinated and ambitious measures to build clean energy economies and respond to the climate crisis” and committed to “reduce...
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In 2010, the CEC Council decided to establish a new grant program, the North American Partnership for Environmental Community Action (NAPECA), to promote model environmental initiatives that use innovation and flexibility to help build long-term partnerships that would improve environmental conditions at the community, Indigenous, local, and regional levels. This grant program also had the goal of supporting the priorities of the CEC’s five-year Strategic Plan.
Considering the intended objective of NAPECA to improve environmental conditions, the CEC commissioned a long-term impact assessment (LTIA) in 2023 to report on the process, results and long-term impacts of the grants in order to inform decisions affecting future implementation of the program. This report presents the main results of the second assessment of NAPECA,1 covering the cycles 2017–2018 and 2019–2020 and the selection process for the cycle 2022–2024.
