Rio+20 will be judged on commitments to action.
The overall effect will be to weaken almost every nation's commitments to action.
Through the Clinton Global Initiative, it has garnered more than thirty-four hundred "Commitoents to Action" since 2005.
Later in the day our working group met and we started to carve out our commitments to action.
Alongside concrete commitments to action, Rio+20 is a one-off opportunity to kickstart the journey to a new set of global goals.
It managed to formalise rich country targets tabled a year earlier in Copenhagen, captured major developing country commitments to action and promises significant financial resources for poor nations.
All of these sessions will highlight business solutions being delivered, commitments to action, and the impediments to achieving scale in sustainable development efforts.
Third, we need to work towards a universal set of goals, with commitments to action in the north and the south.
He said the outcome of the conference was "nothing short of disastrous", as governments came offering no money or commitments to action.
Numerical targets were a core strength of the MDGs; they were concrete commitments to action, performance can be measured and governments held accountable.
