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 - 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.
