Rio+20 Summit Weasels Out On Holding Corporations to Account

CorpWatch beleives that the use of the weasel word “encourage” is in line with the language of the Rio+20 documents. Lasse Gustavsson, the head of the WWF team at the conference, said on Sunday that “’encourage’ is used approximately 50 times in the negotiating text, while the word ‘must’ is used three times.” The article looks at the weak commitments on corporate accountability. Read the full article here.