{"id":1124,"date":"2012-05-10T15:01:53","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T15:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/2012\/05\/10\/business-as-usual-wont-do-at-rio20-summit\/"},"modified":"2012-05-10T15:01:53","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T15:01:53","slug":"business-as-usual-wont-do-at-rio20-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/business-as-usual-wont-do-at-rio20-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Leading civil society groups call governments to agree on a global framework of rules to strengthen corporate reporting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">A group of leading international humanitarian, development, social justice, environmental, and<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">workers\u2019 organisations today warned that next month\u2019s UN Conference on Sustainable<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">Development (Rio+20) looks set to add almost nothing to global efforts to deliver sustainable<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">development. The group also warns that too many governments are using or allowing the talks<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">undermine established human rights and agreed principles such as equity, precaution, and<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">\u2018polluter pays.\u2019<\/div>\n<p>A group of leading international humanitarian, development, social justice, environmental, and workers\u2019 organisations today warned that next month\u2019s UN Conference on SustainableDevelopment (Rio+20) looks set to add almost nothing to global efforts to deliver sustainable development. The group also warns that too many governments are using or allowing the talks to undermine established human rights and agreed principles such as equity, precaution, and\u2018polluter pays.\u2019 Among the demands civil society groups call on governments to:&nbsp;<em>Agree a global framework of rules to strengthen corporate reporting on social and&nbsp;environmental impacts worldwide, consistent with the Rio Principles, the Universal&nbsp;Declaration of Human Rights, and encompassing the full range of impacts associated with&nbsp;corporate activities.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>To read the full statement click <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stakeholderforum.org\/fileadmin\/files\/Rio_mais_20_statement_of_concern.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 5px; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 5px; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of leading international humanitarian, development, social justice, environmental, and workers\u2019 organisations today warned that next month\u2019s UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) looks set to add almost nothing to global efforts to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}