Search Results for: Climate change

BY PHILIP FINE

AN ASSUMPTION has been made by many in the past few months in the international food industry: the unveiling of so many new low-calorie and low-fat alternative food items must have something to do with obesity-related litigation lurking in the US.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

Duke Energy Corp, a diversified US energy company based in Charlotte, is in discussions with “several potential buyers” for its European natural gas business, the company has announced. It gave no details of the possible buyers or price.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
IN terms of compliance with the anti-money laundering rules and regulations laid down by supra-national bodies like the European Commission and the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), Ireland today is right up there at the top of the class.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is offering a research contract for publishing experts to analyse the economic and technical evolution of Europe’s scientific publications. The study would also focus on the implications of recent changes for publishing houses, retailers and consumers.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE WORLD’S 20 largest corporations, including Exxon Mobil, BP and Chevron Texaco, have failed to prepare for the economic fall-out of climate change, says Washington DC’s Investor Responsibility Research Center. A study says none of the companies have estimated their potential financial losses from global warming.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE PRESENT European Commission under the presidency of Romano Prodi has sometimes been said to be ‘green-minded,’ in that it takes a more friendly attitude towards the environment than either its predecessors or the European Union member governments.…

BY PHILIP FINE, in Montreal

A CANADIAN research team has made progress in trying to make eggs less susceptible to cracks. University of Ottawa Professor Max Hincke claims that his work on the basics of eggshell formation could not only help make this natural packaging more robust, but also reduce diseases, such as salmonella, which can contaminate eggs via cracks.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BANNING of the fluorinated gas SF6 (sulphur hexafluoride) as a protective gas in magnesium casting, (barring smaller die casters), has been proposed in a European Commission-ordered consultants report on fighting climate change. Ecofys and Öko-Recherche had been told to draw up practical recommendations on better implementing the European Climate Change Programme.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Commission-funded research project has claimed that further reforms are required to the EU’s live exports legislation, concluding that stressful transport conditions are not only posing problems to animal welfare but also to meat quality and consumer perceptions of the industry.…

KEITH NUTHALL
A KYOTO Protocol secretariat report has warned the industrialised world’s greenhouse gas emissions will probably grow this decade, having stabilised during the 1990’s. Based on government projections, the paper claims combined 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.…