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CDM PROJECTS OFF TO A SLOW START IN AFRICA
BY GEORGE STONE
THE KYOTO Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has made slow progress in Africa, but schemes are slowly getting off the ground, led by programmes in Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa.
Under the United Nations-backed CDM process, projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and contribute to sustainable development can earn saleable certified emission reduction (CER) credits.…
TOBACCO CONTROLS MAYBE GROWING - BUT THEY ARE OFTEN WEAK
BY AHMAD PATHONI, ALYSHAH HASHAM, MARK ROWE and KEITH NUTHALL
GIVEN the constant flow of news about tougher tobacco industry regulations from all continents, tobacco executives could be forgiven for thinking there are no countries where they have a relative free hand to sell their products.…
MIGA EXPECTED TO BACK ETHIOPIAN FRUIT JUICE PROJECT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE MULTILATERAL Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) of the World Bank is considering backing an innovative development of an integrated fruit production and processing business in central Ethiopia. MIGA is looking at covering US$9.25 million in financing from the Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa (IDC) and Africa Juice BV, of the Netherlands.…
RINDERPEST WILL BE DECLARED EXTINCT BY FAO
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A CATTLE disease responsible for the destruction of millions of head of cattle and other hoofed livestock should be declared extinct within the next 18 months, with global cooperation the key to success. The United Nations’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the Office International des Épizooties (OIE) – the world animal health organisation – are preparing to announce that rinderpest has disappeared.…
AFRICAN CUSTOMS MAKES SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENTS
BY BILL CORCORAN and ALAN OSBORN
IT is now some five years since a group of London-based multinationals, among them British American Tobacco (BAT), set up a group aimed at improving the conditions for doing business with and through Africa – named the Business Action for Improving Customs Administration in Africa (BAFICAA) initiative.…
ETHIOPIA'S 'SESAME STREET' WINS EDUCATION MEDIA AWARD
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN ETHIOPIAN version of the popular USA television show ‘Sesame Street’ has won an UNESCO award for showing how televised puppetry can promote children’s learning in developing countries. ‘Tsehai Loves Learning’, which screens on Ethiopian national television ETV features a knowledge hungry giraffe called Tsehai and his friend Mr Turtle.…
CHINA'S BOOMING HYDROPOWER SECTOR IS CAUSING SIGNIFICANT ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS
BY MARK GODFREY
THE BUREAUCRATS and engineers who run China’s booming hydropower sector will be in listening mode in April when the world descends on Beijing for the second International Conference on Hydropower Technology & Equipment. The theme of this year’s government-sponsored gathering – ‘Sustainable China Hydropower Industry’ – reflects worries about the environmental impact of recent massive hydropower projects in China.…
UN EXPERTS WARN THAT WORLD FOOD CRISIS CONTINUES, DESPITE RECESSION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
UNITED Nations experts have said the global food price crisis continues, despite the global recession and linked oil price falls. Economists from the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) told a World Trade Organisation agriculture committee meeting its global food price index is still 51% higher than in September 2006, albeit at its lowest for nine months.…
COSMETICS CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IS ALTRUISM OR JUST GOOD BUSINESS?
BY JULIAN RYALL, JAMES BURNS, RAGHAVENDRA VERMA and PHILIPPA JONES
"IT is better to be beautiful than to be good," wrote Oscar Wilde in ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’. Many cosmetics and personal care companies worldwide may still believe this statement to be true, but being, or at least claiming to be, "good" has become an essential part of the sector’s public image.…
TURKISH CLOTHING SECTOR GEARS UP FOR EU MEMBERSHIP
BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Beirut
TURKISH clothing and textile manufacturers are ramping up production of mid- to high-end garments for the European market in the face of strong competition from China and other apparel producing countries, while also preparing for Turkey’s eventual membership of the European Union (EU).…