No noises ahead of Cancun

Around this time last year, there was frenetic activity in the climate change circuits in the lead up to the widely anticipated summit meeting in Copenhagen, even though it had become sufficiently clear that a comprehensive and global agreement — that was the stated objective of the conference — was not going to be realised in the Danish capital.
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This year has been in stark contrast. With just three months to go for the next annual climate conference — this time scheduled at the Mexican beach city of Cancun in November-December — there has been absolutely no excitement, and very little activity. It is almost as if the climate negotiations came to an end with the failure of the Copenhagen conference.

Negotiators have been going through the motions and almost as many meetings have been organised since January as last year. The latest one, involving environment ministers from more than 40 countries, came to an end in Switzerland over the last weekend. But as has been the case with every other meeting this year, there has been absolutely no progress made at any of these discussions.

Prince [heroically allows someone else to wear a pair of his pants, after he no longer wants to wear them] - Telegraph

The Royal Train, introduced by Queen Victoria in 1842, has attracted controversy in recent years because of its £800,000-a-year cost, leading to calls for it to be scrapped by some MPs.
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The Prince began the tour by donating a pair of his old corduroy trousers to be auctioned at the garden party to raise money for Oxfam. His cast-offs also served to highlight clothes recycling, one of the many themes of Start.

As he boarded the train – which runs on environmentally-friendly fuel made from old cooking oil – the Prince said: "What I hope to get across, to as many people as possible, is that however awful a predicament we face with climate change and the unsustainable use of the natural resources that keep us all alive, we aren't going to get anywhere by telling everyone what they need to stop doing.

Climabiz: Piraeus Bank`s new climate change project on Environmental Expert

Piraeus Bank has embarked on a new innovative European project, titled 'climabiz' which aims at preparing the Greek market to timely adapt to the new conditions arising from climate change.

Mozambique bread riots may be warning sign on African food security - CSMonitor.com

I have a supreme conviction that global food markets are but the perturbation of a butterflys's wing away from a serious tipping point. In fact, I would venture that the best way to play the narrative fallacy that is the "Global Climate Change Denial Camp" is via buying a basket of breakfast commodities and grains. There are more of us, our average calorific intake is a multiple of what it was, and we have toasted the planet -- capping global agricultural output. Narrowing that perception gap and converting it into real action is going to be like herding cats.

The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is fond of saying that the food markets have ample inventory and that there is absolutely nothing to worry our little heads about.