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Conferencia Rio + 20
Conferencia sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible en América Latina y el Caribe: seguimiento de la agenda para el desarrollo post-2015 y Río+20
Estimad@s colegas de la CEPAL:
CAINFO y GAIA socios de Uruguay se reunieron con Directora de Asuntos Ambientales de la Cancillería en el marco del proceso de A
Las organizaciones de la sociedad civil también son convocadas al proceso de la creación de un instrumento regional para el P10. CAINFO (Centro de Archivo y Acceso a la Información Pública) y GAIA (Organización Civil de Derecho Ambiental) forman parte de la red de organizaciones de la sociedad civil que está colaborando con el proceso en las instancias de consulta.
Latin America and the Caribbean Principle 10 Declaration Side event
A Side event entitled “The Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) Declaration on Principle 10” was held in Nairobi, Kenya at the UNEP Governing Council on Thursday 21st February to build countries and civil society awareness of the adoption of a Principle 10 LAC Declaration at the Rio+20 Conference in Brazil. There are currently eleven governments which are signatories to the P10 Declaration adopted as an official Rio + 20 outcome. These countries are; Brazil, Chile Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Jamaica Mexico Panama , Paraguay , Peru and Uruguay.
TAI and its partners are working to get funding for civil society participation in the process for the LAC P10 Instrument
In the context of Rio+20, a number of civil society organizations, most of which form part of The Access Initiative (TAI), came together to advocate countries in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region to advance on access rights. As a result, at Rio+20 eleven governments issued a formal declaration and publicly signaled their support for development of a regional instrument to strengthen access to information, public participation, and access to justice in sustainable development decision‐making.
