| Montreal, 8/09/2000 – Public concern about the state and fate of our shared environment continues to play a major role in the work of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC).
To help identify future environmental quality issues and policy priorities, the CEC has unveiled an online questionnaire. Members of the public are invited to provide their views on what will emerge as environmental issues of pressing concern for them and their children over the next 20 years.
Results from the questionnaire will be summarized in a report that will be discussed at a December 2000 joint meeting of the CEC's Intergovernmental Advisory Group on Critical and Emerging Trends in North America and the Joint Public Advisory Committee (JPAC), with a view to providing advice to the CEC Council on future priorities.
The deadline for submitting responses is 20 October 2000.
For more information, please contact Ana Herrera at: aherrera@ccemtl.org.
The CEC was established by Canada, Mexico and the United States to build
cooperation among the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
partners in implementing the North American Agreement on Environmental
Cooperation (NAAEC), the environmental side accord to NAFTA. The CEC
addresses environmental issues of continental concern, with particular
attention to the environmental challenges and opportunities presented by
continent-wide free trade.
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