Marcelo, a toxics campaigner from Brazil who has been with us for 12 years, has just walked in and he's so tired he can hardly summon the English needed to communicate with me. Its nearly 14.00 and he had probably been working for 18 hours or more. Marcelo says "We got a commitment for an agreement at an international level to make corporations accountable to people. This plants the seed for an international framework that will make corporations accountable. The US was against it, and had to cave in."