The Fifth Latin American Conference on the Environment (Eco-Latina 2002), taking place Sep 24-27 in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte, will be the region's first chance to assess the results of the Rio+10 Summit, which ended Sep 4 in Johannesburg. The event is organized by Brazil's Environment Ministry, the Environment Secretariat of Minas Gerais state, the city of Belo Horizonte, the World Bank and the Brazilian Small and Micro-Enterprise Support Service.

This year's Eco-Latin is expected to draw more participants than last year, when total attendance was 5,200 people and 155 exhibitors from eight countries.