UN / LATIN AMERICA ENVIRONMENT

The Escazú Agreement, which aims to combat inequality and discrimination and to guarantee the rights of every person to a healthy environment and to sustainable development, opened for the signature of the 33 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. The Vice President of Costa Rica, Epsy Campbell Barr, said the signature was “a milestone for environmental democracy” as well as a “contribution our region is making for global multilateralism.” UNIFEED

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:25
• Production Date: 27 September 2018
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: EPSY CAMPBELL BARR
• Corporate Name: ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN - ECLAC
• Subject Topical: ENVIRONMENT
• Geographic Subject: LATIN AMERICA
• MAMS Id: 2247602
• Parent Id: 2247602
• Alternate Title: unifeed180927g

Description

STORY: UN / LATIN AMERICA ENVIRONMENT
TRT: 01:25
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: SPANISH / NATS

DATELINE: 27 SEPTEMBER 2018, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
2. Wide shot, dais
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Epsy Campbell Barr, Vice President, Costa Rica:
“It is a milestone for environmental democracy. It is a contribution our region is making for global multilateralism. In effect, this is the first binding environmental agreement for the whole region, and truly a substantive step.”
4. Wide shot, reporters
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Epsy Campbell Barr, Vice President, Costa Rica:
“It places citizen action and environmental defenders at the centre, a vital issue in terms of all the challenges we face.”
6. Med shot, reporters
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Alicia Bárcena Ibarra, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC):
“This is an innovative process as it has incorporated the public, which is no less and no more than society as a whole, civil society organizations, but not only them, that’s why we refer to it as the public as it represents the public interest.”
8. Med shot, reporters
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Alicia Bárcena Ibarra, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC):
“This is an agreement which is about access to information, public participation, and to justice in environmental issues.”
10. Med shot, reporters
11. Med shot, Campbell Barr and Bárcena at the dais

Storyline

The Escazú Agreement, which aims to combat inequality and discrimination and to guarantee the rights of every person to a healthy environment and to sustainable development, opened today (27 Sep) for the signature of the 33 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.

At a press conference at UN Headquarters, the Vice President of Costa Rica, Epsy Campbell Barr, said the signature was “a milestone for environmental democracy” as well as a “contribution our region is making for global multilateralism.”
She noted that this was “the first binding environmental agreement for the whole region, and truly a substantive step.”

Campbell Barr said the Agreement “places citizen action and environmental defenders at the centre, a vital issue in terms of all the challenges we face.”

For her part, the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Alicia Bárcena Ibarra, said “this is an innovative process as it has incorporated the public, which is no less and no more than society as a whole, civil society organizations, but not only them, that’s why we refer to it as the public as it represents the public interest.”

Bárcena said “this is an agreement which is about access to information, public participation, and to justice in environmental issues.”

The Treaty, also known as the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters, devotes particular attention to persons and groups in vulnerable situations, and places equality at the core of sustainable development.