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Business says states not living up to Rio promise

5 June 2002 - Stockholm - Multinational companies and local communities have done much more than governments to promote sustainable development during the past 10 years, the head of a corporate lobby said yesterday.

"I think we are taking a lot of responsibility dealing with these issues, and some governments aren't," Bjorn Stigson, the president of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), told Reuters in an interview.

Read full Reuters interview.