EU ROUND UP

BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Environment Agency (EEA) says the old 15 member European Union's (EU) greenhouse gas emissions fell by 0.5% from 2001-2, following increases in the previous two years.Sadly, proactive anti-global warming measures were not top of the agency's reasons for the cut. These included warmer weather - reducing heating emissions - and economic problems in some manufacturing industries, (full report http://reports.eea.eu.int/technical_report_2004_2/en). The survey comes as the European Investment Bank (EIB) considers lending Italian utility ASM ...


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