Chapter III
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
Article 26 of Antigua and Barbuda’s Environmental Protection and Management Act (No. 11 of 2015) states that the authority is to establish a register of sources of pollution containing data on quantities, conditions or concentrations as required to identify each pollutant, and that this is to be open to public inspection. The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) has implemented a number of programmes to facilitate implementation of PRTRs in countries of the region such as Argentina, Belize, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico and Uruguay and the design of a regional PRTR for Central America. In Latin America and the Caribbean, UNITAR projects and the cooperation of various countries, including Spain, have been proving essential for the implementation of these registers. As map III.1 shows, just two countries in the region, Chile and Mexico, have operational PRTRs issuing periodic reports. The two registers, whose first public reports date from 2007 and 2006, respectively, were prompted by commitments taken on under free trade agreements (see box II.1).
Map III.1 Latin America and the Caribbean: status of pollutant release and transfer registers (PRTRs), March 2017
Pollutant release and transfer register Planned In preparation Final implementation phase Reporting regularly Source: Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Observatory on Principle 10 in Latin America and the Caribbean [online] http://observatoriop10.cepal.org. Note: The boundaries and names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the United Nations.
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