During the first meeting of the negotiating committee of the regional agreement on access to information, public participation and access to justice in environmental matters in Latin America and the Caribbean, held in Santiago, Chile, on 5-7 May 2015, Antigua and Barbuda signed on to the Declaration.
The Declaration on the application of Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean was signed at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio +20), held in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012. In the Declaration, the signatory countries - Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Plurinational State of Bolivia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, and Uruguay – undertake to advance the achievement of a regional instrument on the rights of access to environmental information, participation and justice, areas which are enshrined in the Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development in 1992. ECLAC supports the process as Technical Secretariat.
