Climate-Smart Agriculture – Overcoming Barriers and Financing the Transition

A vital keynote address of the 2023 Critical Conversation forum organized by the Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment (iSEE) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), one of CGLR’s Great Lakes Higher Education Consortium institutional members. The agriculture sector is on the front lines of climate change that threaten production across the US. Climate-smart […]

CONFERENCE: Annual General Meeting

The Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative, a partner of the Council of the Great Lakes Region, had planned an extraordinarily special program to celebrate their 20th anniversary. The conference featured leading experts on municipal climate action and collaborative, hands-on activities that prepared you to take the next step to advance your city’s climate […]

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 […]

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