At the close of a two-day Paris meeting, Business Action for Sustainable Development yesterday rejected South Africa's appeal for private sector funding for next year's World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, calling on governments to pay for the summit instead..."If business were to provide core funding, this would feed all the suspicions about business, inevitably leading to charges that it was exerting undue influence," Mark Moody-Stuart, chairman of the business association coalition, said.