Sustainable Great Lakes: A Regional Assessment of Sustainability in the Binational Great Lakes Megaregion
For over fifty years, governments around the world, including in Canada, have discussed the importance of sustainability or sustainable development. One of the more prominent undertakings was the Rio Summit in Brazil in 1992, which led to the creation of Agenda 21. Subsequently, the Millennium Development Goals were adopted by the United Nations in 2000, […]
Powering Forward: Accelerating the Bi-national Great Lakes Region’s Clean Energy Transition Report
The bi-national Great Lakes mega-region, home to 107 million Americans and Canadian and center of the United States-Canada economic partnership, enjoys a multitude of shared sectors and socio-economic strengths, as well as integrated assets such as inter-state and cross-border supply chains, transportation corridors, and energy systems between both countries, that connect, unify, and advantage the […]
Harnessing Big Data Analytics to Improve Watershed Protection: CGLR & Pollution Probe 2018 Report
Pollution Probe and CGLR released the report, ‘Water Management and Big Data Analytics: Examination of Opportunities and Approaches to Leverage Data Science, Analytics and Advanced Computing to support Watershed Planning and the health of our Great Lakes Ecosystem’ July 2, 2019. This report was made possible thanks to generous funding from the RBC Foundation, and […]
Council of Great Lakes Region and Pollution Probe Release Report on Harnessing Big Data Analytics to Improve Watershed Protection
TORONTO, July 2, 2019 – Pollution Probe and the Council of the Great Lakes Region are pleased to announce the release of a new report, ‘Water Management and Big Data Analytics: Examination of Opportunities and Approaches to Leverage Data Science, Analytics and Advanced Computing to support Watershed Planning and the health of our Great Lakes’ […]
Combatting Opioid Crisis: 2018 Canada-U.S. Roundtable Outcomes
On September 24, 2018, over 100 senior level participants from governments, health care, civil society, academia and industry met in Washington, D.C. for the inaugural Canada-U.S. Roundtable on Strategies to Combat the Opioid Crisis. The event exchanged best practices in innovation to address problematic opioid use, including prevention, treatment and recovery, and identified opportunities for […]
Untapped Opportunities: Regulatory Cooperation in the Great Lakes
This report provides a rational for regulatory cooperation within the binational Great Lakes Region and proposes some potential first steps to initiate a dialogue between New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ontario and Quebec.
Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Region Tourism Trends and Statistics
Opportunities for Growth Global tourism has seen unprecedented and virtually uninterrupted growth since the 1950’s. In fact today, travel and tourism is the world’s largest service industry, contributing trillions to world GDP. Competition for travelers and tourism dollars, as a result, is fierce!
Restoring Water Levels on Lake Michigan-Huron
A Cost-Benefit Analysis A 2014 report from CGLR and Mowat calculated that if extremely low water levels persisted until 2050, the adverse effects on the Great Lakes economy could reach $18.82 billion (USD).
Vital Capital
Using Alternative Procurement and Financing Models to Capitalize on the ‘Infrastructure Moment’ in the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Region This paper identifies and analyzes existing and emerging models of alternative financing for infrastructure in the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Region, particularly in partnership with the private sector, and explores opportunities for cross-border collaboration on […]
Driving Economic Growth & Keeping the Air Clean
This report takes an in-depth look at nuclear energy in the eight states and two provinces that make up the region