Canada needs to show leadership at Earth Summit, Charest says - World - CBC News

The WWF's Troya, who also attended the original Rio summit 20 years ago, says there has been a 180-degree change in Canada's position.

"This is a Canada that doesn't speak to the Canada my colleagues and I saw in Rio in 1992."

Wet and cold weather batters Somerset's fruit growers too... | UK

In the South East some growers have lost up to 65 per cent, or even 90 per cent of their crop.

Scepticism ahead of Rio+20 climate change summit | euronews, world news

Environmental group Greenpeace claims the 50 page document is unlikely to contain very many specific plans because negotiators are removing all influential points in the text.

“Any progress you hear about in press conferences, is about progress to water down the text to avoid commitment. In reality, governments are here to do nothing and to commit to nothing,” said Daniel Mittler, Greenpeace’s Political Director.

Report condemns EU push for biomass-fuelled ‘green economy’ at Rio+20 | World Development Movement

Alex Scrivener, policy officer at the World Development Movement, said today:

“Substituting biomass for fossil fuels sounds like the easy solution to climate change. But in reality, it leads to land grabs, the destruction of rainforests, and severe food shortages where land is used to grow fuel instead of food. And the idea that biofuels are ‘carbon neutral’ is a myth.