Downbeat leaders find little to cheer at Rio+20 summit

At the official start of the Rio+20 summit – already widely deemed a failure – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff called for developed nations to provide more funding to back sustainable development.

Existing commitments on the table are not sufficient, the president said at the opening ceremony of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro.

The final draft of the Rio+20 declaration, driven by the Brazilian delegation at the beginning of the week, has also been received poorly, with even the UN secretary-general lambasting it.

“Let me be frank. Our efforts have not lived up to the measure of the challenge," says Ban Ki-moon.

The draft document makes no commitments and offers no details of the “sustainable development goals” it calls for.

Brazil hammered…

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