During the Second Meeting of the Focal Points of the signatory countries of the Declaration, held in Guadalajara, Mexico on April 16 – 17, 2013, Colombia and Honduras signed onto the Declaration.
The Declaration on the implementation of Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean was signed in the framework of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio +20), held in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012. In the Declaration, the signatory countries: Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago, and Uruguay are committed to developing an action plan until 2014 , with the support of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) as Technical Secretariat to advance the achievement of a regional instrument on the rights of access to information, participation and environmental justice, which enshrines Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development in 1992.
