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BY KEITH NUTHALL
DEVELOPING countries, the UN Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the World Conservation Union (IUCN), the World Fish Centre, and the World Bank have launched a Global Programme on Fisheries (PROFISH). This will help developing countries design and implement sustainable fisheries plans, and combat illicit over-fishing.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GLOBAL warming doomsayers regularly warn of a catastrophic meltdown of Greenland’s ice cap, switching off the North Atlantic Drift, plunging Britain into the nightmare of Siberia-style winters and turning southern Europe into a desert. But they should check the latest data from the European Space Agency (ESA): it says the Greenland ice cap is getting bigger.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed the creation of an official code of conduct for European Union (EU) for simplifying tax returns made by multinationals currently hamstrung by contrasting revenue collection rules.

Brussels wants to help large companies present clear accounts covering activities in a number of countries, taking into account inter-group transfers of assets and funds.…

KEITH NUTHALL
GERMANY – which until recently had a Green-Socialist government – is home to five of the 10 dirtiest electricity plants in the European Union (EU), a report from conservation group WWF claims. Its assessment of carbon-dioxide emissions from power stations found Germany’s lignite Frimmersdorf RWE plant second most polluting, behind Greece’s lignite plant at Agios Dimitrios.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) has released a new standard for improving security along companies’ entire supply chains, even if these are global in length. The standard ISO/PAS 28000:2005 includes requirements enabling an organisation to establish, implement, maintain and improve complete security management systems, including, amongst others, financing, manufacturing, information management, packing, storing and transferring goods.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH the EU banning imports of poultry and poultry meat from Romania, Turkey and Croatia, because of outbreaks in these countries of bird flu, European and global health authorities are concerned about the disease moving to sub-Saharan Africa, where it would be almost impossible to stamp out.…

BY MARK ROWE
WEATHER forecasters have always come in for criticism but the reality is that forecasting has evolved somewhat beyond the reliance of medieval truisms such as rain on St Swithun’s Day means 40 more days of showers. Today’s forecasts are more reliable than ever, and meteorologists can provide long-term predictions of wet weather, heat waves and other extreme events.…

BY MARK ROWE
OVERSHADOWING the Japanese paint industry in recent years has been the overall shape of the country’s economy. The stagnation of the economy lasted for much of the 1990s but it showed signs of recovery in the first half of fiscal 2004-2005, driven by solid exports and strong corporate capital investment.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations General Assembly has voted to create a new remembrance day in November for road traffic victims, who are regularly more numerous than deaths caused by wars or civil strife. Indeed, 1.2 million people are killed annually in road accidents, says the World Health Organisation (WHO), more than the population of Estonia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) has welcomed the spread of programmes tackling violence as a public health priority instead of just a crime problem, with the WHO saying such an approach fosters effective holistic policies. A recent conference, the 2nd Milestones of a Global Campaign for Violence Prevention, in San Francisco, co-hosted by the WHO and the California Wellness Foundation, heard of many new national models.…