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BY KEITH NUTHALL
DEVELOPING countries, the UN Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the World Conservation Union (IUCN), the World Fish Centre, and the World Bank have launched a Global Programme on Fisheries (PROFISH). This will help developing countries design and implement sustainable fisheries plans, and combat illicit over-fishing.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH the EU banning imports of poultry and poultry meat from Romania, Turkey and Croatia, because of outbreaks in these countries of bird flu, European and global health authorities are concerned about the disease moving to sub-Saharan Africa, where it would be almost impossible to stamp out.…

BY MARK ROWE
OVERSHADOWING the Japanese paint industry in recent years has been the overall shape of the country’s economy. The stagnation of the economy lasted for much of the 1990s but it showed signs of recovery in the first half of fiscal 2004-2005, driven by solid exports and strong corporate capital investment.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FIRST phase of an Africa Stockpiles Programme has been approved by the World Bank, the Global Environment Facility (GEF), and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) – the initiative aims to eliminate in the continent stockpiles of obsolete pesticides, including persistent organic pollutants (POPs).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FIRST formal global standard for operating information security management systems has been issued by the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO). Ted Humphreys, convenor of the ISO/IEC 27001:2005 standard committee said its launch “is a big event in the world of information security”, which would “help organisations plug existing leaks and prevent future threats”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GLOBAL warming doomsayers regularly warn of a catastrophic meltdown of Greenland’s ice cap, switching off the North Atlantic Drift, plunging Britain into the nightmare of Siberia-style winters and turning southern Europe into a desert. But they should check the latest data from the European Space Agency (ESA): it says the Greenland ice cap is getting bigger.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States claims that it has won a World Trade Organisation (WTO) case against Mexico, with a disputes panel ruling a 20% tax on Mexican soft drinks manufactured with imported high-fructose corn syrup broke global commerce rules.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE CLEAR message from the first meeting of the Sustainable Energy Forum in Amsterdam last month (October) was that the higher the price of fossil fuels then the greater the need for national governments to support the introduction of renewable energy sources through subsidies, tax breaks, technical assistance and the like.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has formally asked European Union (EU) ministers to authorise it to negotiate and conclude a “comprehensive open aviation agreement” with the Ukraine. In a detailed memorandum, Brussels said a deal would “establish an ambitious framework integrating wider aviation issues such as regulatory co-operation in the fields of aviation safety, security, air traffic management, technology and research as well as “doing-business” issues and industrial co-operation.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A WELL-FINANCED international programme to remove stocks of obsolete pesticides from Africa has been launched, protecting communities from persistent organic pollutants. The first phase of the Africa Stockpiles Programme (ASP-P1) has now been approved by the World Bank, the Global Environment Facility (GEF), and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).…