Value proposition

Three countries working together to protect our shared North American environment.

The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) was established in 1994 by the governments of Canada, Mexico and the United States through the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation, a parallel environmental agreement to NAFTA. As of 2020, the CEC is recognized and maintained by the Environmental Cooperation Agreement parallel to the new Free Trade Agreement of North America. The CEC brings together a wide range of stakeholders, including the general public, Indigenous people, youth, nongovernmental organizations, academia, and the business sector, to seek solutions to protect North America’s shared environment while supporting sustainable development for the benefit of present and future generations. Find out more at: www.cec.org.

CEC is governed and funded equally by the Government of Canada through Environment and Climate Change Canada, the Government of the United States of Mexico through the Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales, and the Government of the United States of America through the Environmental Protection Agency.

Environment, Environmental Cooperation, Ecosystems, North America, Green Growth, Environmental Quality, Public participation, Environmentalism, Intergovernmental organization, Food Waste, Monarchs, Pollinators, Pollution, Marine Litter, Extreme Events, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Submissions on Enforcement Matters, Joint Public Advisory Committee, North American Partnership for Environmental Community Action, Shorebirds, and Marine Protected Areas