Green Fury As Britain Welcomes Rio Summit's 'Epic Failure'

Jim Leape, international director general of WWF, hoped that today’s document would be renegotiated: “It’s pathetic. It’s appalling. If this becomes the final text the last year has been a colossal waste of time. Looking at this from the outside, you have to laugh.”

Friends of the Earth are even stronger in their disapproval, calling the plans “an epic failure”.

Furious Greenpeace moves to 'war footing' at Rio+20 | Environment | guardian.co.uk

The head of Greenpeace International said the NGO is moving to a "war footing" after negotiators at the Rio+20 sustainable development conference watered down proposals to protect the world's oceans.

Kumi Naidoo, Greenpeace International's executive director, said there were so many fudges in the draft agreement that Greenpeace now had no other option but to change its strategy and start planning waves of civil disobedience.

"We have to ask ourselves what history teaches us in terms of how change happens when humanity has faced a big challenge, such as civil rights, apartheid or slavery," he told the Guardian.

"It is only when decent men and women said enough is enough and no more and were prepared to put their lives on the line and go to prison if necessary, and that is where we are. We have to intensify civil disobedience.

"I keep thinking of what Mandela said decades ago, which is, this struggle is one that I am prepared to live for and if needs be to die for and that is what the leadership challenge is for us."

When asked if he was prepared to die for the cause, he responded: "Yes. I feel a very deep sense of that."

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