Year: 2018
Type: article
Abstract: Twenty years after the enshrinement of the Aarhus Convention,the Latin American and Caribbean States adopted the Escazú Agreement inorder to improve implementation of Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration. Thispaper thoroughly introduces this novel regional agreement in four mainsections. The first one reviews Rio’s Principle 10 and its role within thesustainable development paradigm. The second one focuses on the negotiatingprocess which concluded with the adoption of the agreement. The third oneexamines the role of the Aarhus Convention as a reference document for thenew instrument. Finally, the fourth section assesses in detail the agreement’stext, revising its most relevant provisions and, especially, the four pillarsestablished in it. The remaining pages expose some insights about therelevance of the agreement, the future perspectives and the way forward.
DOI: 10.17345/rcda2412
Author: Gastón Médici Colombo
Institution: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Language: English
Topic: Environmental law and policy
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2902760800