Search Results for: Global Warming

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has launched a review of how extensively the European Union (EU) should use World Trade Organisation-approved antidumping, countervailing and safeguard measures. This follows difficult negotiations in the past two years over whether to protect the EU against Asian exports of clothing and footwear, pitting liberal northern European retailers, against protective southern European manufacturers.…

BY MARK ROWE
CLIMATE change, the general scientific consensus now holds, is taking place, and will continue to do so even were we to stop our fossil fuel emissions overnight. And while there may be jests to the effect that hotter summers would be good news for drinks manufacturers, the reality is that the drinks sector faces as many challenges as any other industry, both in terms of ingredient and energy supplies, production adjustments and related commercial issues.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
IT’S had a somewhat laborious beginning but at long last it seems that the West African regional body for fighting money laundering – formally known as the Groupe Inter-gouvernemental d’Action contre le Blanchiment en Afrique (GIABA) – is ready to begin operations in earnest.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
FOLLOWING a year or more of advance razzmatazz, the European Union’s multi-pronged energy strategy was unveiled on January 10 and while history may not see it as the “new industrial revolution” that Brussels proclaimed, there’s enough in it to engage the minds of everybody in the energy industry for perhaps years to come.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) fishermen will be able to harvest 10,000 tonnes of tuna and related species from Mozambique Indian Ocean waters from this year to 2012, under a new agreement negotiated by the European Commission. This new fisheries partnership agreement, replaces an agreement spanning 2004-6, assuming it is rubber stamped by EU ministers.…

BY MARK ROWE
CLIMATE change is now widely accepted as taking place across the planet, with huge implications for all industries, and the energy sector is no exception. Predictions from expert weather organisations make unsettling reading: the long-range forecast is for extremes of temperatures and more violent weather, more often.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FIGHTING fraud is a complex process, especially with increasing trade flows and international transactions. As a result, it is not only important that companies, public sector organisations and consumers have available detailed and comprehensive advice on how to protect themselves against fraud, but that these guidelines do not vary widely from country to country.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in New York
QUESTION

GLOBAL warming is destroying the ice cap habitat of the Arctic’s iconic polar bear. Recently, the Bush administration proposed that the polar bear should be added the US ‘threatened’ species list because warming temperatures are melting ice flows where bears hunt seals.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is lending Euro 10 million to steel company SC Donasid to help it upgrade its steel billet plant at Calarasi, south-east Romania, expanding production from a current 300,000 tons per year to its full potential of 450,000 tons.…

BY ALAN OSBORN and MARK ROWE
IN the space of some five years, biofuels have grown from almost total insignificance in the European Union (EU) to becoming the only practical alternative to petrol as a fuel for motor vehicles and much else – albeit still at a very low level.…