Search Results for: Climate change

BY ALAN OSBORN
HOW can insurers and governments effectively manage “risk”? The usual way is to base policy on scientific evidence of the probability of an outcome. But this is no longer adequate – it is the perception (last word in italics?)…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) competition Commissioner Mario Monti has called for reforms to the EU’s common market organisation for sugar, claiming that the existing regime stifles change in the sector. He said that usually his officials usually challenge market sharing agreements and price fixing.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TECHNOLOGY being developed by a European Commission funded research project should allow curators to effectively monitor environmental pollution that can damage ancient treasures in museums and galleries. The MIMIC (microclimate indoor monitoring in cultural heritage preservation) project is using a range of sophisticated devices to deduce the effect of changes in humidity, temperature, light and pollutant levels (nitrogen dioxide, sulphur dioxide, nitrous acid and ozone).…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
A RESEARCH paper from the respected University of Uppsala, in Sweden, has set off an intense debate amongst climate change specialists by claiming that there are not enough recoverable oil and gas reserves worldwide to lead to previously predicted disastrous global warming scenarios.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
DECLARATIONS of intent on tackling climate change are no longer good enough, delegates to last week’s (Nov4-5) Royal Institute on International Affairs/Carbon Trust conference on delivering climate technology was told by a senior executive from Italy’s environment ministry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
POLITICAL pressure has been piled onto the British government by the European Union (EU) over commercial diesel tax rates, after ministers passed a directive allowing Member States to charge lower duty on diesel sold to hauliers than to car drivers.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
250 words, DM Pounds 48, plus expenses: Train/tube travel from Honor Oak Park to Piccadilly return on 4 November: ?6.20, Phone card ?5 (Tickets should come in post – if not – can you ask Deirdre if she’s sending them in – of not, just send in the claim anyway.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
THE IMMEDIATE challenge posed by global warming to the petroleum industry – reducing carbon dioxide while maintaining low-regulated emissions – has to be combined with care that consumers can afford resulting new technologies and fuels, a Royal Institute for International Affairs’ climate technology conference in London heard.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AN OVERWHELMING majority of Canadians are displeased with their private motor insurance schemes and believe their provincial governments should step in to regulate the industry, according to a recent public opinion poll.

Of the 1,017 respondents interviewed, 75 per cent said these regional authorities should use their constitutional powers on insurance to impose limits on premium increases, and an equal number say that they should not exceed the inflation rate for people with clean driving records.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DENMARK’S Risoe National Laboratory expects wind power to become fully competitive with conventional power plants within seven to 10 years, the climate technology conference heard. Tom Delay, chief executive of the Carbon Trust (joint organiser of the conference), said offshore wind plant would be especially competitive, creating enough power for domestic use and for export.…