Report of the Regional Workshop on the Implementation of Rio Principle 10 in the Caribbean Region

Governments and stakeholder groups, alike, have recognized the need for global, regional and national steps to enhance implementation of Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development. Consequently, during the 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) a number of Member States from Latin America and the Caribbean signed The Declaration on the implementation of Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean. As of September the signatory countries to the Declaration stood at 15, committed to developing a Plan of Action to advance the achievement of a regional instrument on the rights of access to information, participation and environmental justice, which enshrines Rio Principle 10. The signatory countries are Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago, and Uruguay. The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) supports this process and serves as the Technical Secretariat