Search Results for: Global Warming

BY DEIRDRE MASON

THE MEDIA rush to pick up on the revival of nuclear energy as a serious UK option, made plain in the Department of Trade and Industry’s recent Energy Review consultation document, has diverted attention from which tail will, in practice, be wagging the UK energy dog over the coming months.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

THE LATEST round of European Union (EU) proposals to tighten up laws fighting the use of illegally unsafe commercial shipping, announced on November 23, 2005, will place shippers who want to continue operating in EU-controlled waters under closer scrutiny than ever, says the European Commission.…

BY STEVEN SWINDELLS, in Johannesburg

SOUTHERN Africa’s leading generic drugs manufacturer Aspen is confident that it can capitalise on the increasing take up of life-prolonging generic anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs, in the fight against HIV-AIDS. But industry analysts have questioned demand forecasts for ARVs and warn that rival Indian generic manufacturers could be a threat to Aspen’s market ambitions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

TRADE ministers have imposed a tight deadline on World Trade Organisation (WTO) negotiators to agree detailed goals of the industrial goods section of its Doha Development Round of liberalisation negotiations – April 30. This is the date by which an overall "modalities" agreement must be struck, which will say how much particular bands (by value) of tariffs must be reduced by all WTO member countries.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

ONLY comparatively recently have the world’s anti money laundering agencies come to grips with alternative remittance systems (ARS) and even today the scale of the systems and the degree of infiltration by criminals is still not fully known.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

UNITED Nations children’s agency UNICEF is claiming that encouraging mothers to exclusively breastfeed their babies for the first six months of their lives could prevent 1.3 million premature deaths. Celebrating the 15th anniversary of a UN declaration promoting breastfeeding, UNICEF and the World Health Organisation (WHO) claim six million infants’ lives are being saved annually because of successful global efforts to promote breastfeeding, which they say have risen 15% since this Innocenti Declaration.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE INTERNATIONAL Energy Agency (IEA) has warned that demand for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles may not reach the critical mass required for a dramatic switch-over to the technology. In such an instance, the Paris-based think tank predicts that other low carbon technologies such as biofuels might gain ground over traditional petrol and diesel automobiles.…

BY MARK ROWE AND PAUL COCHRANE

INTRODUCTION

JUST as chocolate sells well in cold countries, so do soft drinks flourish in hot countries, which would suggest that North Africa and the Levant presents an inviting face to the international drinks market.…

BY MARK ROWE
WEATHER forecasting at sea has evolved beyond the age-old fisherman’s approach of licking a finger and holding it up to the prevailing wind, and the oil and gas industries have been reaping the benefits. Improvements in numerical models, faster computers, and access to more and better data (from, for example, buoys and satellites) mean that forecasts are more accurate today than 10 years ago.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
IRELAND’S Celtic Tiger economy may have lost a little of its bounce recently, with double-digit annual growth figures no longer predicted. However, the beast is still in fine fettle, as a recent Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) observer report notes: “The economy has bounced back.…