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CGLR does not accept the status quo or business-as-usual mindsets. Instead, by integrating the economic, social, and environmental agendas of the region and planning for the future, CGLR is serious about tackling our most challenging sustainable development issues by finding common ground on the policies, business strategies, infrastructure, technological solutions, research, workforce, and individual actions required to build a better tomorrow for all today.
CGLR does not accept the status quo or business-as-usual mindsets. Instead, by integrating the economic, social, and environmental agendas of the region and planning for the future, CGLR is serious about tackling our most challenging sustainable development issues by finding common ground on the policies, business strategies, infrastructure, technological solutions, research, workforce, and individual actions required to build a better tomorrow for all today.
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Roundtable Dialogues & Programs
Great Lakes Higher Education Consortium

Future Now: Building Tomorrow’s Workforce, Innovations, and Businesses Today

The Great Lakes Higher Education Consortium (GLHEC) was launched in 2020 to facilitate a new era of cross-border, institutional collaboration in the bi-national Great Lakes region with a focus on three overarching priorities for strengthening the region’s long-term competitiveness and sustainability – skills and talent development, research and innovation, and entrepreneurship.

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Business & Sustainability Programs
The sustainability of the region’s economic systems and sectors has never been in sharper focus for consumers, government decision-makers, and environmental NGOs. CGLR’s business and sustainability dialogues and programs are convening stakeholders across borders and sectors and building support for a healthy Great Lakes ecosystem and a prosperous regional economy by providing a platform that enables trusting relationships to be formed, knowledge and experience to be shared, and collaborative solutions to be fostered and actioned.
Great Lakes Carbon Collaborative

Decarbonizing our Future

The bi-national Great Lakes region is North America’s economic engine and the main driver of the United States – Canada economic partnership. As both countries seek collaborations and projects between business, government, academia and the non-profit sector to achieve a low-carbon future as part of the Roadmap for a Renewed U.S.-Canada Partnership, the region can lead the way in designing decarbonization strategies and techniques on a regional, cross-border scale.

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Circular Great Lakes

Forging a Future Without Waste and Litter

Valuable materials are lost to landfills and the environment, especially plastics. In fact, it is estimated that 22 million pounds of plastics enter the Great Lakes every year. Creating a binational Great Lakes circular economy and cleaning up marine litter is one way to close the loop and keep critical materials cycling through the regional economy.

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Great Lakes WISE

Safeguarding our Freshwater Resources

The Great Lakes freshwater system is not an infinite source of water, and resources must be used wisely and protected from contamination, pollution, and misuse. The Great Lakes business community is recognizing they must be stewards of these waters, and supporting them is Great Lakes WISE. Great Lakes WISE (Water Innovation and Stewardship Exchange) is a platform that convenes business leaders committed to advancing their water stewardship and corporate sustainability, providing peer-to-peer networking, knowledge sharing, and information exchange.

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Program Updates
Great Lakes Plastic Cleanup (GLPC) Shares New Data and Insights for Plastic Free July
July 15, 2024

Groundbreaking initiative provides update on data collection and community impact in the fight to clean up the waterways of the Great Lakes region. TORONTO – July 16, 2024 – An …

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Meijer Expands Great Lakes Stewardship Commitment with Donation to the Council of the Great Lakes Region Foundation
April 22, 2024

Donation will help improve water and wildlife quality in river corridors throughout Wisconsin. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., April 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Midwest retailer Meijer is continuing its commitment to Great Lakes stewardship with …

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Founding Corporate Partners of CGLR’s Great Lakes Water Innovation and Stewardship Exchange Announced
March 28, 2024

Initiative will advance business sustainability and accelerate corporate water stewardship in the US-Canada Great Lakes region. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: MARCH 28, 2024 In recognition of World Water Day 2024, the …

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