Today was World Environment Day…apparently. Is it just me or was this somewhat of an underwhelming day? Perhaps my expectations were misaligned, there i was thinking there would be huge fanfare from governments and businesses all jumping on, lots of events, lots of media coverage. Perhaps there was in places, and in certain countries, but not that i saw in the UK. Not even those trusted bastions of environmentalism, the Independent and the Guardian had much to say on it. If i am missing the point , someone let me know…..or perhaps everyone is just too focused on the upcoming G8, which will have far greater reaching consequences in the battle to curb carbon emissions, hopefully postive ones. There’s clearly been a lot of posturing by countries in the lead up to the G8, the US asking for a completely separate negotiating framework outside of the UN (surprise) to be started next year, Germany and the UK insisting a deal be done at the G8. Let’s hope this is just postering and that a deal of substance will be done….the world expects in hope.