2 0 2 3 - Third Triennial Assessment of Progress on Great Lakes

Specifically, International Joint Article 5.5 of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement (as amended in 2012) outlines that the governments of Canada and the United States Commission are to “review the operation and effectiveness of this Agreement” following the publication of “every third triennial Assessment of Progress Report of the Commission.” In the view of the Commission, this review proces. [...] RECOMMENDATIONS Based on the assessment, findings and conclusions of this report, the Commission offers the Parties three recommendations: 1 2 3 The Commission recommends The Commission recommends The Commission recommends that the Parties collaborate that the Parties, in collaboration the Parties support and with First Nations, Métis and with all levels of governments, actively participate in the. [...] The Commission considers the “State of the Great Lakes Report,” reviews the “Progress Report of the Parties” and gathers and summarizes input on it, conducts its own assessment of governments’ progress to achieve the Agreement’s general and specific objectives, and publishes findings in the “Triennial Assessment of Progress” report. [...] The assessment of the Great Lakes ecosystem The Parties’ report also provides a lake-by-lake conducted by the Parties and presented in the overview that tells us the status of each lake in “State of the Great Lakes 2022 Report” reflects the terms of restoring and maintaining the physical, conclusions of many scientists, experts and chemical and biological integrity of the Great resource managers. [...] In accordance with the Agreement’s foundational principles of The Canadian and US governments’ assessment from the pollution prevention, zero discharge and the precautionary “State of the Great Lakes 2022 Report” of the overall status of principle, the Parties are tasked with achieving the objective of pollution (toxic chemicals) is listed as fair with the trend keeping the Great Lakes waters free.