ABSTRACT
The environmental crisis more severely affects that which falls under the umbrella of the Global South. It is precisely that we need to look at innovative answers to global challenges. Global unity in the environmental realm and in other fields throughout history has often only reached when the very survival of humans—and more recently, nonhumans—is at risk. When it comes to indicator species among states, speaking by analogy, the complex organisms of the Global South give us clear signals about environmental conditions. The connection of human rights to environmental protection is an even bigger issue in the Global South. The Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean, adopted under the auspices of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean in 2018, follows a similar path as the Aarhus Convention in achieving the objectives associated with Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration.
