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TÜRKIYE DAIRY PRODUCTION FALLS AS INDUSTRY STRUGGLES WITH INFLATION AND DEPRECIATING LIRA
UNESCO-BACKED DEBATE AT COP-28 TOLD UNIVERSITIES SHOULD PURSUE CLEAR AND TARGETED SUSTAINABILITY POLICIES
Practical programmes and strategies that enable universities and colleges to drive forward sustainable practices and knowledge to fight and manage climate change are increasingly needed, a UNESCO-sponsored workshop heard this week in Dubai.
Staged on Wednesday (December 6) as the United Arab Emirates hosts the COP28 conference of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) this month, HE experts stressed such work needs to extend to less economically developed countries.…
JAPAN PAINT SECTOR STRUGGLES TO SELL TO PRIVATE CONSUMERS, BUT B2B SEGMENT IS ROBUST
Japanese paint manufacturers are facing challenging times – reducing costs where possible as the price of inputs rise, to reduce pressure on final product pricing as they deal with a local consumer market with declining consumption. Economic pressures caused by geo-political turbulence and the weak Japanese yen are both creating challenges, according to industry experts.…
CAMEROON PUSHES AHEAD WITH MAJOR 420MW HYDRO PROJECT – DIVERSIFYING IMPORTANT AFRICAN POWER MARKET
In most urbanised industrialised economies, the current focus on renewable energy growth is on wind and solar. Lacking untapped river resources, major hydro-electric projects are rare. However, in larger and more rural countries, especially those still industrialising, large-scale hydro is still an option.…
EU APPROVES EUROPEAN CAPITAL MARKETS UNION LAWS, BUT DEEP CAPITAL POOLS AWAIT
The European Union (EU) has been busy chiselling the regulatory edifice of its much-vaunted European Capital Markets Union (CMU), but this growing legal framework has yet to deliver the deep capital pools that its framers envisaged.
Indeed, speaking at the European Banking Congress, in Frankfurt, on November 17, European Central Bank (ECB) president Christine Lagarde, bemoaned the lack of available EU capital (1):
“Today, European start-ups attract less than half the funding of their US counterparts, while the volume of investments in scale-ups in the United States is more than four times greater than in Europe,” she stressed.…
IRAN SANCTIONS EVASION PERSISTS AS UN-BASED NUCLEAR RESTRICTIONS LAPSE
Implementing international sanctions is never easy, but the sanctions regime on Iran is highly complex, buffeted by shifting diplomatic stances. With its Security Council ally Russia relying on Iranian military and technology supplies for it to pursue its invasion of Ukraine, time-limited UN restrictions on Iran’s nuclear programme officially lapsed on October 18.…
EU MEMBER STATES FAILING TO COMPLY WITH WHISTLEBLOWER LAW
European Union (EU) member states are failing to comply with the bloc’s 2019 whistleblower protection directive (1) and two – Estonia and Poland – have not implemented the legislation at all, according to a new report (2) from Transparency International. ‘How well do EU countries protect whistleblowers?…
AL AIN UNIVERSITY PAVES THE WAY FOR MORE QUALITY EDUCATION AND SUSTAINABILITY IN UAE
The United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) private Al Ain University (AAU), located in the oasis city with the same name, is leading the way on sustainable development among local universities, through initiatives to boost quality education and global and national partnerships.
AAU, in Abu Dhabi emirate, on the Oman border, of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), was considered the best UAE university in the 2023 Times Higher Education Impact Ranking (https://www.timeshighereducation.com/impactrankings#!/length/25/locations/ARE/sort_by/rank/sort_order/asc…
NEW EU IP RULES WILL BOOST RESEARCH, BUT CONCERNS OVER COMPULSORY LICENSING REMAIN, SAY EXPERTS
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU)’s proposed new intellectual property (IP) rules to safeguard inventions (https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2023/09/25/intellectual-property-council-adopts-two-positions-on-designs-protection-legislation/) will cut red tape and boost technology transfer, university research experts have told University World News (UWN). They praise the increased opportunity to protect new products.…
CIRCULAR ECONOMY INCREASINGLY DRIVES PACKAGING CHOICES, BUT BETTER INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDED, SAY EXPERTS,
PACKAGING companies worldwide are increasingly choosing more environmentally friendly packaging, driven by tough laws, such as the European Union’s (EU) proposed packaging and packaging waste regulation (PPWR) (1). This is moving through the EU’s legislative decision-making system, ready for approval in 2024, with the European Parliament adopted its first reading report on November 22 – coordinated by French liberal MEP Frédérique Ries (2).…