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BY MARK ROWE

DESPITE devastating hailstorms along Italy’s Adriatic Coast and concerns over damage from the olive fly, the forecast for the olive oil market for the 2006 season is positive, according to the International Olive Oil Council (IOOC).

"All the information available predicts a good harvest for this season" said a spokesman for the IOOC.…

BY MARK ROWE

MORE countries are increasing market share and production levels, according to TDC Olive, with non-EU producers now securing significant market share: Syria (8% of global market share of olive production), Morocco (8%), Turkey (7%), Argentina (5%), Algeria (5%) and Egypt (7%).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A WORLDWIDE plan to promote the recycling of electronic waste could emerge from the oncoming and eighth meeting of the conference of the parties to the Basel Convention, in Kenya – its first session in Africa – from November 27 to December 1.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE UNITED Nations Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has claimed that global warming – whilst posing serious risks for developing countries through flooding and desertification – could actually spur economic growth through sustainable biomass production. Speaking at the recent UN climate change conference in Nairobi, the FAO’s Kenya representative Castro Paulino Camarada said with the right technologies, converting biomass such as wood and crop residues, grass, straw and brushwood into fuel could "provide developing countries an abundant supply of clean, low-cost energy while helping spur economic development in rural communities".…

BY JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo

IT may be in its infancy, but European scientists have high hopes for new research into more effective ways to store hydrogen, and particularly in how it can be applied to next-generation fuel cell systems for vehicles, research that could have global implications.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

WORLD Trade Organisation global trade figures for 2005 show that international exports for liquid fuels rose 41% to US$1.4 trillion in 2005, 13.8% of worldwide merchandise exports, higher than for almost two decades. Oil-rich Middle East, Africa, the ex-USSR Commonwealth of Independent States and south and central America recorded export growth of 35-25%.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A WORLD Bank expert group has called on oil companies to cut gas flaring, estimating that this waste disposal pumps 390 million tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere. This is more than the potential yearly emission reductions from existing Kyoto Protocol-based initiatives, noted the bank’s Global Gas Flaring Reduction Partnership (GGFR).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) has announced plans to wean Armenia off nuclear energy and onto renewables, rather than funding replacements for its ageing Soviet-era reactors. One unit at the former Soviet republic’s Metsamor plant currently supplies 40% of the country’s energy; a twin unit has been mothballed since a 1988 earthquake shook the power station, 75 km south of the epicentre.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC), of the World Bank, is lending 320 million Chinese Yuan – RMB (US$40.8 million) to leading China pharmaceutical manufacturer and distributor the Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceuticals Company. The IFC said the loan would support Chinese pharmaceutical sector reforms, while enabling Fosun Pharma to expand production of its anti-malaria products, build capacity and standardise environmental, health and safety management systems throughout its subsidiaries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE ORGANISATION for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has called on China to improve its environmental record regarding the mining and consumption of coal, to help reduce pollution overall. In its Environmental Performance Review of China, an OECD working party on environmental performance has recommended China introduces "cleaner coal technology, coal washing and flue gas desulphurisation".…