Side event on the Principle 10 regional process is held at UNEP's meeting of senior government officials expert in environmental law

On 9 September, a side event on the Principle 10 regional process was held in the framework of UNEP's Meeting of senior government officials expert in environmental law that took place between 7 and 11 September in Montevideo (Uruguay).

Senator from Antigua and Barbuda, Maureen Payne-Hyman, the Head of the International Affairs Office of the Ministry of the Environment of Chile, Constance Nalegach, the Legal Advisor of the Ministry of the Environment of Panama, Joana Abrego, and the Deputy Director of Environmental Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uruguay, Carlos Rodríguez presented at the event. In addition, Dr. Marcos Orellana, international law expert, Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Director of Environmental Law and Conventions of the United Nations Environmental Programme, and on behalf of the Technical Secretariat of the process, Carlos de Miguel, Chief of ECLAC's Policies for Sustainable Development Unit also intervened.

Participants coincided in the stressing that the regional process on the negotiation of a regional instrument on access to information, public participation and access to justice will strengthen regional cooperation and greatly contribute to achieving sustainable development in Latin America and the Caribbean.