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BY MONICA DOBIE
WITH Sainsbury removing all plastic carrier bags from its checkouts for last Friday (April 27), handing out reusable paper bags made from 100% recyclable material, another nail is being hammered into the global reputation of this ubiquitous packaging.…

BY LUCY JONES, in Dallas, Texas
GRAFFITI artists, US baby boomers and the massive expansion of low-cost housing are several – very diverse – factors buoying up Mexico’s paint industry.

Vast improvements in the property-buying process for foreigners, plus a slowing of the housing sector at home, are making the country’s coastal areas from Cancun to Baja California increasingly attractive for North American retirees.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
WITH every new piece of European Union (EU)-inspired road and vehicle-safety legislation brings a new opportunity to make and sell the kit to local authorities so that they can comply. Speed limiters may not be the newest story in safety equipment, but the requirements to fit them had a further boost on January 1 this year.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
IMPLEMENTATION of the European Union’s (EU) Third Money Laundering Directive by Trust and Company Service Providers (TCSPs) has given rise to a number of difficulties across the 27 EU member states, all of them related in some way to the key issue of identifying the beneficial owner of funds.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A UNITED Nations-led private-public initiative involving some of the largest electronics manufacturers in the world will promote the recycling of electronic waste, especially in developing countries, which often lack the expertise to undertake this often complex task. The Solving the E-Waste Problem (StEP) group is being supported by Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Dell, Ericsson, Philips and Cisco Systems, and is coordinated by the United Nations University, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC), of the World Bank, has signed a deal with the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies to help raise the social and environmental standards of the country’s clothing manufacture sector towards globally-recognised models. With Bangladesh fighting to maintain the competitiveness of its key 2.2 million employee clothing sector against Chinese competition, the IFC has concluded in a statement: “Compliance with global environmental and social standards is a critical issue.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States’ diplomatic service is surely the largest and best resourced international network of experts in the world, and this is born out by the depth of the narcotics strategy report – or INCSR to use its acronym.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has rejected arguments by the European Commission that when a member state receives funding to reduce the size of its fishing fleet, it should not re-issue licences left unused when boats are transferred to a non-European Union (EU) register.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States Trade Representative office has released intelligence reports showing global hotspots for sophisticated fake packaging. One bulletin, from the International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition has cited Paraguay and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as problem countries. “Counterfeit exporters in Paraguay…use sophisticated methods to produce accurate forgeries of labels and packaging that are difficult for both consumers and law enforcement to distinguish from genuine products,” it says, adding UAE free zones Jebel Ali and Fujairah are major entry points for fakes into legitimate distribution channels.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has agreed guidance for its 189 member states on incorporating international aviation pollution into global warming emissions trading schemes. They agreed that cutting aviation emissions would not count towards meeting Kyoto Protocol targets, however.…