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BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have refused to give up on EU global positioning service GALILEO, telling the European Commission to draw up detailed proposals by September for initial funding by taxpayers. Whilst leaving an option to pull the plug, an EU Council of Ministers meeting has backed a communiqué that “reaffirms the value of Galileo as a key project”, and accepts its deployment will require “additional public funding”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE LATEST report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has stressed the urgent action still required to reverse global warming trends, saying without action, global greenhouse gas emissions will be 25% to 90% above current levels by 2030, with the highest growth from the transport sector.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A TWO-day meeting in Hamburg of European Union (EU) fisheries directors on the impact of global warming on fish stocks involved just over four hours of conferring, amidst a stay in a luxury hotel, a “sailing and feasting” cruise of the city harbour and a tour of an Airbus factory.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE LATEST report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has stressed the urgent action still required to reverse global warming trends, saying without action, global greenhouse gas emissions will be 25% to 90% above current levels by 2030, with the highest growth from the transport sector.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AN AUSTRALIAN study from the Global Carbon Project and Marine and Atmospheric Research has warned that tropical deforestation causes 1.5 billion tons of carbon being released into the atmosphere each year, notably because the trees retain more carbon than they release into the atmosphere.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has unveiled plans this year to tighten the European Union’s (EU) national emissions ceilings directive, which caps the amount of pollution released in the air within member states. This comes in the Commission’s latest annual environmental policy review, which has been released alongside a mid-term review of its 2002-2012 sixth environment action programme.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A LENGTHY row over European Union (EU) energy policy is shaping up following the publication in April of a detailed independent study sponsored by the European Commission of the electricity markets in six EU countries.

The study – Structure and Performance of Six European Wholesale Electricity Markets in 2003, 2004 and 2005 – was drawn up by the consultants London Economics in association with Global Energy Decisions and focuses on the electricity wholesale markets in Belgium, Germany, Spain, France, the Netherlands, and the UK excluding Northern Ireland.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
As with many financial service providers in the EU, the definition of financial adviser differs, often significantly, from one country to another. In its very basic sense – i.e. the provision of financial advice pure and simple, without the add-on of other services that could involve the handling of client money – the profession of fee-paid advisor is a limited one and probably confined to only a few thousand people in Luxembourg, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CHAIRMAN of the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Doha Development Round has said the USA will have to reduce its overall food production subsidies to secure agreement in the global commerce talks. In his first formal report since the round was temporarily suspended last July, chairman Crawford Falconer said, quite bluntly: “It is frankly inconceivable that the US will come out of this negotiation with an entitlement to spend more on overall trade distorting domestic support than it had when it came in.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNET site has been launched by the Global Bioenergy Partnership (GBEP), a UN-run organisation that promotes the sustainable production of biofuels.

The Rome-based group helps exchange know-how and technology, whilst identifying potential investment for the sector and advising on overcoming obstacles hindering its development.…