2023 Report of the Executive Director to the Council

The time to act on climate is now, and In the end, we ourselves are the authors of our North America, through the Commission North American story on environment and climate for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), change, and the CEC is helping drive the narrative is taking action! and the actions of that story. [...] 2023 Report of the Executive Director to the Council 18 Under my tenure as CEC’s Executive Director, and building on the mandate priority to enhance the relevance of the CEC within the region and abroad by linking the CEC’s projects and initiatives more closely to global and regional frameworks, and emphasizing that the USMCA/CUSMA recognizes the important role other multilateral environmental agr. [...] 2023 Report of the Executive Director to the Council 22 And so, building on the clarion call of our leaders in global, regional and national commitments to more aggressively tackle climate change, and grounded in our trilateral agreements to protect and preserve our environment, as Executive Director of the CEC, I am challenging our team and our partners to better employ our resources to do more o. [...] In response to the 2021 NALS joint statement, the CEC Council met and re-affirmed the urgent need to tackle the devastating effects that climate change poses on the health, safety, socio-economic and environmental well-being of our communities, and in 2022, announced the launch of a Climate Adaptation Initiative to advance the response and adaptive capacities of our three countries to deal with ex. [...] Of notable mention, The transparency and credibility of the SEM process in the public eye the report recommended: improving communication with the submitters requires that the procedure to review SEM cases be conducted thoroughly, during the SEM process, finding flexibility for meeting certain timeframes in independently, and in a timely manner and that the Parties have the the SEM process, and de.