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BY ALAN OSBORN, in Westminster
A SENIOR American nuclear industry advisor has told a global energy conference of his optimism that a “nuclear renaissance” is now possible in the US after 27 years in which no new reactors have been ordered.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CHAIRMAN of the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Doha Development Round has said the USA will have to slash its food production subsidies to secure agreement in the global commerce talks. Crawford Falconer said: “It is frankly inconceivable that the US will come out of this negotiation with an entitlement to spend more…than when it came in.”…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Abu Dhabi
HOW to better regulate the popular Middle East and south Asian alternate remittance system (ARS) known as hawala, which has been linked to money laundering, organised crime and terrorist financing, was the focus of the recent Fourth International Conference on Hawala at the Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in Abu Dhabi.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has unveiled plans this year to tighten the European Union’s (EU) national emissions ceilings directive, which caps the amount of pollution released in the air within member states. This comes in the Commission’s latest annual environmental policy review, which has been released alongside a mid-term review of its 2002-2012 sixth environment action programme.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has suggested the European Union’s (EU) global positioning satellite network Galileo be built and put into orbit under public sector funding alone, abandoning its current private-public partnership scheme. Protracted disputes between contractors within the prospective consortium chosen to develop Galileo have made it highly likely the project will miss its 2012 launch deadline and the Commission is losing patience.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AN AUSTRALIAN study from the Global Carbon Project and Marine and Atmospheric Research has warned that tropical deforestation causes 1.5 billion tons of carbon being released into the atmosphere each year, notably because the trees retain more carbon than they release into the atmosphere.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, in Westminster
ENERGY experts, officials and politicians from around the word have told a senior London conference ‘The New Politics of Energy: Europe in a Global Context’ how with rapidly global energy markets changing rapidly at present, the European Union is becoming more disadvantaged in coping with the coming new realities.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE LATEST report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has stressed the urgent action still required to reverse global warming trends, saying without action, global greenhouse gas emissions will be 25% to 90% above current levels by 2030, with the highest growth from the transport sector.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE LATEST report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has stressed the urgent action still required to reverse global warming trends, saying without action, global greenhouse gas emissions will be 25% to 90% above current levels by 2030, with the highest growth from the transport sector.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ENERGY and the environment are probably the hottest policy topics for the European Union (EU) at the moment, with climate change and dependence on imported energy supplies foremost in the mind of EU leaders. As a result, any initiatives that tackle both problems at the same time are likely to receive a hearty welcome in Brussels.…