Search Results for: Global Warming

BY LUCY JONES

A new kind of executive is cutting an impression in the traditionally male-dominated brewery boardrooms. They are dedicated, tough and often young – and being female, a rare breed in the drinks environment.

As the beer business expands and perceptions change, women are increasingly rising to the top of the industry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A BOOK detailing practical ways in which governments can reduce the costs of dealing with major challenges such bird flu, terrorism and climate change has been released by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). *The New Public Finance: Responding to Global Challenges http://www.thenewpublicfinance.org/…

BY MONICA DOBIE

CANADIAN researchers have suggested a novel way of preventing a feared switch off of the Gulf Stream that warms Europe and Britain, preventing us from being plunged into Siberia-style winters. The concern is linked to global warming and its potential melting of the North Pole ice cap.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CATALYTIC converters, hydrogen fuel cells and wind power are well known allies in the battle against global warming, but now British Antarctic Survey and University of Hull researchers have discovered a new and unlikely saviour: Antarctic krill. These tiny shrimp-like crustaceans are a crucial meal for whales, penguins and seals, but these British scientists think they may also help sustain the planet, transferring carbon into the ocean equalling the annual emissions of 35 million cars.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

IT is not always the case that an initiative tackling an mining environmental problem also directly improves the health and safety of miners, but this is true for a new World Bank project to remove methane from Chinese coal mines.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

IN line with the growing recognition in the 1980s of anti-money laundering campaigns as a weapon against terrorism and increased knowledge global drug supply routes, (implicating a number of Latin American countries), governments of the western hemisphere concluded that greater formal co-operation was necessary in fighting dirty money.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

FURTHER global restrictions on the tobacco industry are to be developed, the first Conference of the Parties to the World Health Organisation (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control has decided. Meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, diplomats established working groups to develop legally binding protocols, using the convention as their authority, that further limit cross-border tobacco advertising and smuggling.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) are collaborating to measure the uneven global provision of telecommunications and Internet services, the so-called digital divide. They are creating an information and communications technology development index.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON, in London

THE POLITICAL institutions of the European Union (EU) are debating how to join an international system that would protect EU manufacturers’ design rights across a wide range of non-European countries in one simple operation. In an initiative that could help auto manufacturers secure the creative aspects of their vehicle design from plagiarism, the European Commission wants to link the EU’s existing Community Design system, (which protects manufacturers’ designs within the 25 EU member states), to a global design registration system run by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), a UN agency.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

WORLD Bank lending to food production projects in developing countries rose by 40% to US$2.1 billion in July 2004 to June 2005, compared with the previous 12 months. The bank said US$247 million was spent on food research and development, US$94 million on agro-industry, US$95 million on boosting food markets and trade, and US$32 million on animal production.…