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KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is to invest Euro 134 million constructing the world’s largest wind farm, 15-20km off the western coast of Denmark’s Jutland peninsula. The project involves the erection of 80 turbines, each generating two megawatts near Horns Rev, in the North Sea.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States has launched a disputes case at the World Trade Organisation against Mexico, complaining about its southern neighbour’s antidumping duties on American beef exports. Washington is claiming that Mexico broke WTO rules in framing these duties, notably its choice of data used in dumping investigations and its methods of measuring alleged injuries suffered by Mexican beef producers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A CLEARER picture of the international funds and cooperation deals required to boost the reliance of the world on renewable energy sources has emerged from the first conference of the Johannesburg Renewable Energy Coalition. The 80-country organisation – established at the city’s world summit on sustainable development last year – forged a consensus on the shape of financial instruments that could promote green energy worldwide.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A KYOTO Protocol secretariat report has warned that the industrialised world’s greenhouse gas emissions will probably grow this decade, having stabilised during the 1990’s. Based on national government projections, the paper claims combined global warming emissions of Europe, Japan, the US and other highly industrialised countries could grow by eight per cent from 2000 to 2010, (17 per cent over 1990 levels), despite measures already in place to limit them.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Bank is granting Zambia US$10 million so it can deal with the withdrawal of Anglo American plc (AA) from Konkola Copper Mines (KCM), without the company being wound up and its operations halted. AA acquired majority control of Konkola in 2000 under a World Bank-assisted privatisation, however, in 2002, in announced its abandonment of the mine, threatening to sell, liquidate or transfer the company to the Zambian government.…

BY MARK ROWE
IT would be inappropriate to liken such an obviously gentle man as Omara Khan Massoudi, director of the Kabul National Museum in Afghanistan, to Indiana Jones. Yet while he is certainly no swashbuckling Hollywood figure, there is no doubt that his experiences have far exceeded the traditional remit of the museum curator’s job description.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Heath Organisation announced that 40 countries and the European Union signed the new global Framework Convention on Tobacco Control within a week of it being agreed. Signatories included Britain, Spain, Iran, South Africa, Bangladesh and France.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD food standards organisation Codex Alimentarius has set new guidelines for food irradiation, accepting higher levels that it previously recommended to eliminate bacteria. It also approved general principles on the analysis and management of risks related to biotechnological foods, including pre-market safety evaluations, product tracing for recalls and post-market monitoring.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation of the World Bank is lending US$17.5 million in INDRupees to Indian textile company Alok Industries Ltd, allowing the Mumbai (Bombay)-based company to expand and modernise its facilities and meet growing demand from domestic and international customers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AGRICULTURAL economists may disagree, but predicting trends in world food markets is not necessarily rocket science. A dose of healthy common sense can be as good a guide for the future demand for commodities as any amount of slide rules and complex economic equations.…