Under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, Canada and the United States have agreed to identify chemicals of mutual concern (CMC) and develop strategies to reduce their release into the waters of the Great Lakes. Canada and the United States have completed the screening of the nomination of sulfates as a possible CMC. Canada and […]

Below are materials documenting the GLEC meeting held on June 25, 2024 in Duluth, Minnesota.

• Agenda (PDF 55 KB)
• Summary (PDF 49 KB)

The “Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook: Great Lakes Region” is a brief bulletin published jointly by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Environment and Climate Change Canada, summarizing the latest season’s weather and water level conditions and weather and water level-related impacts over the Great Lakes and provides an outlook for the upcoming quarter. […]

It is with great excitement that we announce the upcoming Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement’s Climate Change Impacts Annex Webinar which will take place on Friday, January 24th from 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. ET. Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada (HICC) and ICLEI (Local Governments for Sustainability) Canada’s Climate Insight will provide a live demonstration […]

The 2012 Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement includes a commitment under the Groundwater Annex to “publish an initial report on the relevant and available groundwater science, and update this report at least once every six years.”  The first report, Groundwater science relevant to the Great Lakes Water Quality: A status report, was released in 2016. […]

Please join us on Thursday, January 23 from 10:30 a.m. -12:00 p.m. eastern / 9:30 a.m. -11:00 a.m. central for a webinar that will provide updates on work under the Nutrients Annex of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. During this webinar we will summarize current conditions in Lake Erie, and you will hear about […]

The 2023 Annual Climate Trends and Impacts Summary for the Great Lakes Basin, led by Environment and Climate Change Canada and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and a partnership of climate services organizations in the U.S. and Canada, provides an overview of the climate trends and impacts in the basin for the year, […]

The “Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook: Great Lakes Region” is a brief bulletin published jointly by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Environment and Climate Change Canada, summarizing the latest season’s weather and water level conditions and weather and water level-related impacts over the Great Lakes and provides an outlook for the upcoming quarter. It is published […]

The “Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook: Great Lakes Region” is a brief bulletin published jointly by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Environment and Climate Change Canada, summarizing the latest season’s weather and water level conditions and weather and water level-related impacts over the Great Lakes and provides an outlook for the upcoming quarter. […]