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The third Meeting of Designated Focal Points by the Governments of the signatory countries of the Declaration on the implementation of Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean was held in Lima, Peru, October 30 and 31, 2013.
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At the meeting, Guatemala and St. Vincent and the Grenadines joined the Declaration and adopted the Lima Vision for a regional instrument on access rights in environmental matters. Delegates from 17 countries signatories also agreed priority action lines by 2014 in capacity building and cooperation.
Documents of the meeting
- Preliminary Programe
- Agenda
- Annotated Agenda
- Typology of International Instruments
- Access to information, participation and justice in environmental matters in Latin America and the Caribbean: situation, outlook and examples of good practice (Spanish only, 2013)
- Lima Vision for a Regional Instrument on Access Rights Relating to the Environment
Presentations
Opening Ceremony (Spanish Only)
- Palabras de Daniel Barragán, Representante del Público
- Palabras de Tirsis Quezada, Directora de Planificación y Desarrollo del Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales de la República Dominicana en representación de la Mesa Directiva de la Declaración sobre la aplicación del Principio 10 en América Latina y el Desarrollo
- Palabras de Alicia Bárcena, Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL)
- Palabras de Fernando Rojas Samanez, Vice Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores del Perú
- Los Derechos de Acceso y Desarrollo Sostenible - Mariano Castro Sánchez Moreno, Viceministro de Gestión Ambiental Ministerio del Ambiente Peru
International Panel: Access rights and International processes
- Aarhus Convention: benefiting from effective governance - Jit Peters, Chair of the Meeting of the Parties of the Aarhus Convention
- Access rights and International processes - Honorable Justice Winston Anderson, Caribbean Court of Justice
- Access Rights as Human Rights - John H. Knox, UN Independent Expert on Human Rights and the Environment, Henry C. Lauerman Professor of International Law, Wake Forest University
Contact: principio10.lac@cepal.org
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- Programa Preliminar de la Tercera Reunión de puntos focales
- Preliminary programme Third Meeting of Focal Points
- Provisional Agenda Third Meeting of Focal Points
- Annotated Provisional Agenda Third Meeting of Focal Points
- Visión de Lima para un Instrumento Regional Sobre los Derechos de Acceso en Materia Ambiental
- Lima Vision for a Regional Instrument on Access Rights Relating to the Environment
- Tipología de Instrumentos Internacionales
- Typology of International Instruments
- Palabras de Daniel Barragán, Representante del Público
- Palabras de Tirsis Quezada, Directora de Planificación y Desarrollo del Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales de la República Dominicana en representación de la Mesa Directiva
- Palabras de Alicia Bárcena, Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL)
- Palabras de Fernando Rojas Samanez, Vice Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores del Perú
- Presentación inaugural: Los Derechos de Acceso y Desarrollo Sostenible - Mariano Castro Sánchez Moreno, Viceministro de Gestión Ambiental Ministerio del Ambiente Peru
- Aarhus Convention: benefiting from effective governance - Jit Peters, Chair of the Meeting of the Parties of the Aarhus Convention
- Access Rights as Human Rights - John H. Knox, UN Independent Expert on Human Rights and the Environment, Henry C. Lauerman Professor of International Law, Wake Forest University
- Access rights and International processes - Honorable Justice Winston Anderson, Caribbean Court of Justice
