Rio, 1 (Agência Brasil-ABR) – The Brazilian Business Council for Sustainable Development (CEBDS) says it will hold a Business Day on September 1 at the World Summit on Sustainable Development (Rio + 10), in South Africa. It is expected that 1,000 businessmen from all over the world will attend for talks on the question of sustainability.

According to the executive president of CEBDS, Fernando Almeida, the organization's basic positions deal with an end to farm subsidies, "because farm subsidies in the northern hemisphere cause misery in the southern hemisphere," and money laundering, "because it finances drug traffic and illegal arms." Almeida declared that the goal is to ensure quality of life and the survival of the human race, saying that the position adopted by conservation countries, led by the US, is seen as "suicide." (AB)