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Latin America poised to agree world's first legal pact for nature defenders
After lengthy negotiations and record deaths of defenders on the continent, sources say a deal is very likely to be reached
Arthur Neslen
Wed 28 Feb 2018 07.04 EST Last modified on Wed 28 Feb 2018 07.06 EST
Latin American countries are poised to agree the world’s first legally binding convention to protect environmental defenders at a conference in Costa Rica.
Land activists and indigenous people were killed in record numbers on the continent last year, with more than two nature protectors murdered every week.
Now, after two years of negotiations, UN and diplomatic sources say it is very likely that an environmental democracy treaty offering them legal protection will be agreed at the summit which ends on 4 March.
Constance Nalegach, Chile’s lead negotiator at the UN’s Economic commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (Eclac) meeting, said that a legal pact was now “the most probable result and [also] a political gain”.
More:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/feb/28/latin-america-poised-to-agree-worlds-first-legal-pact-for-nature-defenders
