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BY ALAN OSBORN
FOLLOWING a year or more of advance razzmatazz, the European Union’s multi-pronged energy strategy was unveiled on January 10 and while history may not see it as the “new industrial revolution” that Brussels proclaimed, there’s enough in it to engage the minds of everybody in the energy industry for perhaps years to come.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
The European Commission has made a pitch for world leadership in the fight against climate change by calling on the 27 EU member states to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 20% by 2020. The move is seen as an example to other countries of the kind of action needed in the post-Kyoto period if there should be no further international agreement for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by then.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in New York
QUESTION

GLOBAL warming is destroying the ice cap habitat of the Arctic’s iconic polar bear. Recently, the Bush administration proposed that the polar bear should be added the US ‘threatened’ species list because warming temperatures are melting ice flows where bears hunt seals.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL health group Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has made an unusual appeal to the European Union (EU) to back the Indian government in its legal fight with Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis over generic drugs. The company claims that India, whose generic drug sector produces a large proportion of medicines used in developing countries, insufficiently protects new drug products from being copied.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
IT’S had a somewhat laborious beginning but at long last it seems that the West African regional body for fighting money laundering – formally known as the Groupe Inter-gouvernemental d’Action contre le Blanchiment en Afrique (GIABA) – is ready to begin operations in earnest.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITISH and German scientists have made a breakthrough in developing Europe’s most common food and animal based pathogen – salmonella – which is increasingly resistant to standard antibiotics.

Britain’s Institute of Food Research and the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, of Germany, have discovered how salmonella bacteria defends itself in hostile environments (such as stomachs and intestines) by continually inserting outer membrane proteins (OMPs) into its cell walls.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

HAVING a crystal ball can be useful and profitable for businesses wanting to get ahead of the game and know what investments they may need to comply with future regulations and best practice?

One tactic is to exploit globalisation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AS the European Union’s (EU) flagship Erasmus student exchange programme approaches its 20th birthday, EU education Commissioner Jan Figel has criticised it for failing poorer students across Europe. The Slovak said: "The Erasmus grant remains far too low to allow students from less favourable financial backgrounds to enjoy the benefits of the programme.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE WORLD Bank has given its 2006 ‘Green Award’ to a collaborative farmed seafood industry-international organisation study that produced global and detailed advice on reducing pollution problems caused by shrimp farming. The Network for Aquaculture Centres for the Asia Pacific teamed with the UN Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO), WWF, the UN Environment Programme and the bank itself to form the Consortium on Shrimp Farming and the Environment.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

CALIFORNIA wine production could plummet by mid-century because of rising temperatures due to climate change a new study warns. According to research in the US scientific journal, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, wine production losses in California could hit 40%.…