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Canadian to chair international environmental committee

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Jan 29th, 2019
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Sabaa Khan

Sabaa Khan

Water Canada Magazine

The Commission for Environmental Cooperation’s (CEC) Joint Public Advisory Committee (JPAC) has unanimously elected Canadian JPAC member Sabaa Khan as committee chair for 2019. She will succeed Mexico’s JPAC member Gustavo Alanís-Ortega, who served as chair during 2018.

The CEC JPAC is composed of 15 volunteer citizens (five from each of Canada, Mexico, and the United States) and advises the CEC Council on any matter within the scope of the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation.

“The CEC is at a critical moment, its mandate having been re-established and expanded for a new generation under the NAFTA renegotiations. The new trade agreement signed between Mexico, Canada, and the United States recognizes the important role of Indigenous knowledge and practices in North American environmental conservation and cooperation…” said Khan.

“The new environmental agreement re-affirms the role of civil society actors and emphasizes the need for collaborative work on a number of pressing environmental and human health threats, such as marine, air and land pollution from high-emissions economies, extreme weather events, forest degradation, desertification, illegal fishing and wildlife trafficking.”

Khan is a member of the Barreau du Québec and senior researcher at the Centre for Climate Change, Energy and Environmental Law, based in Joensuu, Finland.

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