To raise awareness of the urgency of boosting national action, as well as regional and international collaboration to improve air quality, CEC, WRI and UNEP North America are hosting a dialogue focused on clean air efforts in Canada, Mexico and the United States, including through the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation signed in 1974.
North America ramps up collaboration to support Sustainable Development Goals
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In lead up to the fifth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-5), the United Nations Environment Programme’s North America Office (UNEP North America) hosted a series of six virtual consultation workshops on the theme of “Strengthening Actions for Nature to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.”
In partnership with MIT Solve, the World Environment Center, and the United Nations Associations in Canada and the United States, UNEP North America convened over 400 North American stakeholders across the Major Groups to explore how nature can be used to help tackle the simultaneous crises of climate change and biodiversity loss. The consultations involved diverse stakeholders, including NGOs, the private and public sector, governments, and youth. They ran from May to October 2020.