The final text was the result of a consensus reached among negotiators on Tuesday, a day before the beginning of the high-level session. It received fierce criticism by environmentalists and civil entities that called it a little ambitious, frustrating and disappointing.

The document could be changed by the heads of State or Government attending the summit, to include some demands from those environmental organizations and, even, by some statesmen.

Friends of the Earth International, one of the major grassroots-based environmental organizations of the world, stated that Rio+20′s final text “is an attack to the peoples, because it is an empty document, without concrete commitments with environment and sustainable development.”

But, officials from the United Nations and the host country have reiterated that the text approved by negotiators and which was presented by Brazil in face of the failure of three previous meeting of the Preparatory Committee is the best possible. It achieved a consensus among the different countries that discussed it.

For a good part of critics, the final text lacks the commitment by wealth countries with the financing of sustainable development’s actions, and others regret they have not raised the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) to the category of independent agency.

The also condemned the rejection by the United States, Canada and the European Union to the G77 plus China of creating an annual fund valued at $30 billion USD to promote sustainable development.

Cuban President Raul Castro said in his speech on Thursday that “the paralysis in negotiations and the lack of an agreement to stop global climate change are a clear reflection of the lack of political will and the inability of the developed countries to act in accordance with the obligations arising from their historical responsibility and current position.”

Raul Castro called for leaving justifications and selfishness, and seeking solutions, because this time all of us will pay the consequences of climate change.

Bolivian President Evo Morales criticized the denominated green economy as a new mechanism of subjugation of the peoples and anti-capitalist governments, and how capitalism can promote privatization and biodiversity mercantilism, and the business of genetic resources.

Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa demanded developed countries to assume a differentiated responsibility to face the environmental problem, as they are the biggest polluters of the atmosphere.

serious consequences to the Third

World.

“Despite the milestone that marked the United Nations Convention on Climate Change, emissions of carbon dioxide increased by 38 percent between 1990 and 2009″, said Raul Castro speaking at the plenary session of the Summit United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio +20.

Now we are going towards an increase in global temperatures that will risk, first, the integrity and physical existence of many island developing States and produce serious consequences in Africa, Asia and Latin America, said the president of Cuba.

Raul Castro also said that thorough a deep and detailed study made during the past five years by Cuban scientific institutions essentially coincides with the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and confirms that in this century, if current trends continue, there will be a gradual and significant elevation of sea level in the Cuban archipelago.

This prediction includes the intensification of extreme meteorologycal events such as tropical cyclones and the increase of the ground water salinization, said Raul Castro.

All this will have serious consequences, especially on our coasts, so we have initiated the adoption of appropriate measures, said Raul Castro.

He indicated that this phenomenon would likewise have strong geographic,demographic and economic implications to the Caribbean islands, which also must face inequities of the international economic system that excludes the smallest and most vulnerable.

To obtain the sustainable development implies to combine the economic growth, social inclusion and the environmental protection, Rousseff stressed.

Brazil adopted that strategy that has concrete results, emphasized in her habitual column Talking with the President.

In the last decade the Gross Domestic Product of this nation grew more than 40 percent, 40 million people ascended to the middle-class and other tens of millions left poverty, said Rousseff.

Such conquests were on the base of the respect to the environment, emphasized the Head of State.

Rousseff emphasized that between 2004 and 2011, the deforestation of the Amazonian region lowered 77 percent and at the moment more of the 80 percent of the original vegetation of that zone remains intact.

Brazil is “an example for the world”, and although it is not the only one, it is a model to follow for the benefit of the present and future generations, she emphasized.

That paradigm requires political will, assured Rousseff, host of the meeting of the UN that will begin in this populated city on Wednesday.

The Río+ 20 will extend until Friday, and the participation of a hundred of Heads of State and Government is expected.

Social, academic, political, representing movements of original peoples, women, among other members of the civil society, will celebrate the event.

According to organizers, they want to transform

Río+ 20, in an opportunity to face the serious problems that the humanity has and demonstrate the political power of organized people.

They consider that 20 years after the first of these meetings of the UN commitments are still on slopes.

They fear the neoliberal policies and the processes of capitalist expansion, generating concentration and exclusion of the environmental crisis to be deepened, with economic and social proportional consequences.