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BY PHILIPPA JONES, in Paris

GLOBAL coordination and greater investment is needed if the cars of the future are to run on hydrogen, claimed delegates at a conference in Paris this week. Elevated costs, refuelling networks and production means are all problems that must be tackled, but more basic lacunae should be filled immediately if hydrogen is to fulfil its potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve energy security for the transport sector.…

BY ANDREW CAVE

BIOFUELS have generated earnest debate ever since German inventor Rudolph Diesel ran the world’s first diesel engine on peanut oil back in 1894, but suddenly there is a biofuels boom that’s moving global markets.
World economies are in a race to find alternatives to fossil fuels and turning crops such as wheat and corn into ethanol or oilseed rape, soya, or palm oil into biodiesel is having an impact on farmers, manufacturer and industrial producers worldwide.…

BY ANDREW CAVE

THE DEVELOPMENT of biofuels and their impact on food crops has generated debate since Germany’s Rudolph Diesel ran the world’s first diesel engine on peanut oil in 1894.
However, now a biofuels boom is moving global markets and one result is commodity crop price inflation.…

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 CHAIRMAN of the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Doha Development Round has said the USA must reduce food production subsidies to secure agreement in the global commerce talks. Crawford Falconer said: “It is frankly inconceivable that the US will come out of this negotiation with an entitlement to spend more” than the US$19 billion currently allowed annually.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE CHAIRMAN of the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Doha Development Round has said the USA must reduce food production subsidies to secure agreement in the global commerce talks. Crawford Falconer said: “It is frankly inconceivable that the US will come out of this negotiation with an entitlement to spend more” than the US$19 billion currently allowed annually.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi
“India is a cultural unity amidst diversity, a bundle of contradictions held together by strong but invisible threads”: These words uttered by India’s first Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru used to once greet visitors on a plaque mounted at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport.…

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BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi

BACKED by a sense of achievement from the successful trip to Egmont Group’s 15th Plenary Session in Bermuda in May, where India finally got admitted into this key international anti-money laundering group, Arun Goyal, director of the country’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU-IND), has claimed in an exclusive interview with the Money Laundering Bulletin that after one year in business his agency is now fully operational.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) and China are negotiating an agreement on handling their trade in textiles and clothing, once outgoing World Trade Organisation (WTO) restrictions are removed on December 31, 2008, and special protections for EU producers end this December.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi

“India is a cultural unity amidst diversity, a bundle of contradictions held together by strong but invisible threads”: These words uttered by India’s first Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru used to once greet visitors on a plaque mounted at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport.…