UNEP Director Klaus Toepfer scolded Parmentier afterwards, saying his confrontational presentation had been inappropriate for a cocktail party.
Parmentier replied, "They scrapped the Kyoto Protocol, I scrapped my speech."
That Australia could take this step during the Bali meeting is just another sign that it's business as usual at the Summit, with emphasis on the word business.
Despairing of being able to regulate international business, the UN has invented a new phrase, "Type 2 outcomes," to describe the partnerships with business they hope will be launched in Johannesburg. (Type 1 outcomes refer to traditional multilateral agreements such as international treaties; type 2 partnerships are ad-hoc and purely voluntary.) With these partnerships, the UN hopes to steer business toward sustainability.
Remember, these are the same businesses that have worked so diligently to weaken UN environment and development agreements, and to weaken the UN itself.
Another UN is Possible
Led by Friends of the Earth and other non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have been pushing instead for a Framework Convention on Corporate Accountability to put some teeth into the UN's approach to corporate behavior.
Parmentier replied, "They scrapped the Kyoto Protocol, I scrapped my speech."
That Australia could take this step during the Bali meeting is just another sign that it's business as usual at the Summit, with emphasis on the word business.
Despairing of being able to regulate international business, the UN has invented a new phrase, "Type 2 outcomes," to describe the partnerships with business they hope will be launched in Johannesburg. (Type 1 outcomes refer to traditional multilateral agreements such as international treaties; type 2 partnerships are ad-hoc and purely voluntary.) With these partnerships, the UN hopes to steer business toward sustainability.
Remember, these are the same businesses that have worked so diligently to weaken UN environment and development agreements, and to weaken the UN itself.
Another UN is Possible
Led by Friends of the Earth and other non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have been pushing instead for a Framework Convention on Corporate Accountability to put some teeth into the UN's approach to corporate behavior.