Grenada joins the Principle 10 regional process

During the third 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, that took place in Montevideo, Uruguay, from 5-8 April 2016, Grenada signed on to the Declaration on the application of Principle 10.

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, Grenada, 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.