Search Results for: Global Warming

BY CHRIS JONES, in Paris

AUTO manufacturers in Europe are calling for greater support from national governments and European Union (EU) institutions in promoting eco-driving – where good motoring styles are adopted which reduce the greenhouse gas and other polluting emissions from vehicles.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE FITTING of electronic stability control systems on all lorries used in the European Union (EU) is likely to become compulsory, following the approval of global standards for this technology by the United Nations. Its World Forum for Harmonisation of Vehicle Regulations has approved the technical standard.…

BY ANDREW CAVE

TECHNOLOGY generates more technology. Only a decade ago, the Internet had only just come into commercial use and many companies still didn’t have websites.

Before then, money launderers got along fine without internet frauds perpetrated through email and websites and the anti-money laundering industry had to manage without software devoted to online identity verification.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

"TEA is known to be good for you, now it is also getting better for the environment:" so said UN Environment Programme (UNEP) executive director Achim Steiner, when launching renewable power initiatives in east Africa. UNEP is coordinating two Global Environment Facility (GEF)-financed projects greening tea production in the region, where it is a pivotal industry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE UNITED Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is pushing for an international agreement limiting the production and use of mercury, which it considers a dangerous pollutant of drinking water supplies. The UN agency has urged governments, industry and utilities to set "clear and ambitious targets" to reduce global mercury levels, for instance by installing technology that slashes emissions from coal-fired power stations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE INTERNATIONAL Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) maritime safety committee has accepted an offer from the United States to be the initial temporary host of a global data exchange linking centres for long range identification and tracking (LRIT) systems for shipping.…

BY MARK ROWE, in London, JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo, and RACHEL JONES, in Caracas

PERSONAL care products – soaps, cosmetics, lotions and hair products – have always been important consumers of vegetable and animal-based oils and fats. Yet, this is a complex sub-sector of the global oils and fats industry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

*Valero retail station

A Valero retail petrol station. Valero petrol is 5% ethanol

Credit – Valero

*Valero – Texas City

Valero’s coker unit at their Texas City refinery.

Credit – Valero

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Caption – Ethanol is now available at a growing number of US gas stations

Credit – National Renewable Energy Laboratory

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Caption – An ethanol production facility in the Midwestern United States, capable of producing 50 million gallons of ethanol annually.…

BY KARRYN CARTELLE

THE SIGNING of a bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between South Korea and the United States is expected to fuel an already booming seafood trade. And with the Koreans having a host of other FTAs in the works, it appears this seafood-producing nation will use free trade agreements to push its seafood products to every continent.…

BY BILL CORCORAN, in Johannesburg

LAST year, South Africa’s Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni openly accused South African casino resorts, such as Sun City and Johannesburg’s Emperor’s Palace of undermining the state’s attempts to catch money launderers.

Mboweni alleged the country’s casinos were thwarting efforts to combat cash-in-transit heists because they continued to accept banknotes previously stained to render them unusable in case they are stolen, either over the counter or through casino bill validating machines.…