The Great Lakes Region’s Response to Calls for Leadership in Climate Action
Watch the recording from the webinar below! Climate solutions and innovation play a crucial role in protecting the Great Lakes and their surrounding watersheds, which together make up one of the largest fresh surface water systems in the world. Key to achieving the ambitious climate goals needed is the leadership and coordinated efforts of […]
Exploring the Connections Between Climate Change and the Foods We Eat
Watch the webinar recording below! What’s going on with the foods we love and the ingredients we need? Prices are increasing, aromas and flavors are changing, nutritional quality is declining, and some foods are even more difficult to find and source – all because of climate change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report […]
WEBINAR: Climate Migration – Is the Great Lakes Region a Climate Haven?
Watch the recording from the webinar by clicking below! The climate crisis and environmental pressures are increasing at an alarming pace. It is projected that within the next 50 years, at least 1 billion people globally could be left needing to migrate due to climate change and climate disasters. People will move to where the […]
Great Lakes Economic Forum 2022
Attendees joined CGLR at the 2022 Great Lakes Economic Forum in Chicago from June 26th – 28th, 2022 to network with hundreds of business executives, government officials, thought-leaders, and subject matter experts from the binational Great Lakes economic region. After its launch in Chicago in 2015, the premier Great Lakes Economic Forum is returning to the […]
Canada and the United States: Exploring New Nuclear
Watch the recording from the virtual event below! The Council of the Great Lakes Region partnered with the Canada Institute, Ontario Power Generation, and the Nuclear Energy Institute to host a virtual event where panelists came together to discuss nuclear energy and how the governments of Canada and the United States can work together to […]
Premier Virtual Great Lakes Book Launch – “MOVE: The Forces Uprooting Us”
Please enjoy the recording from this event (below) which is hosted on our YouTube channel along with Parag’s PDF presentation slides which you can download by clicking HERE. In the 60,000 years since people began colonizing the continents, a recurring feature of human civilization has been mobility—the ever-constant search for resources and stability. Seismic global […]
The Future of the Great Lakes Series – Building the World’s Automobility Hub
The Great Lakes Region has always been a world leader in the future of the automobile. Now, the region is taking it to the next level — in automobility. As the global transportation industry retools to electric and autonomous vehicles, automobility is the opportunity to create new software, data technology, autonomous and electric vehicles, EV […]
Green Stormwater Infrastructure: A Natural Response to Climate Risk
CGLR Mar 17 Event Summary
Green Stormwater Infrastructure: A Natural Response to Climate Risk Across the Great Lakes Region–March 17, 2021 event hosted by the Council of the Great Lake Region The combination of antiquated approaches to real estate development, loss of forest cover, outdated hydrologic conveyance systems, and increasingly extreme changes in weather patterns in the region, have led […]
International Joint Commission Boards’ Webinar on High Water Levels in Great Lakes
July 17, 2020 The International Lake Superior Board of Control, the International Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River Board and the International Niagara Board of Control co-hosted a webinar on the historically high water levels in the Great Lakes, Friday, July 17, 2020. The webinar provided an overview of why the Great Lakes are at their current […]