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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.…

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 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 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 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.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AS trade ministers flew home from four days of gruelling talks at last week’s World Trade Organisation (WTO) summit in Hong Kong, they could be forgiven for feeling some satisfaction: the end of the Doha Development Round is nigh, probably.…

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 KEITH NUTHALL
THE USE of more and increasingly sophisticated monitoring equipment to detect radioactive steel scrap, that might otherwise be melted and cause health problems for workers and the public, has been urged by a European Commission report. It warns: “The problem of rogue sources shows no sign of diminishing”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
OIL and gas companies have called on the European Commission to improve long-term certainty within the European Union’s (EU) global warming emissions trading scheme, in a public consultation attracting over 300 responses from energy producers and consumers. A key concern is predictability regarding allocating national emission allowances, whose award has become less reliable since a recent European Court of Justice (ECJ) case, where judges rejected a European Commission order for the UK to adjust its CO2 pollution limits.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE LAWRENCE Livermore National Laboratory, California, USA, has warned global warming could be much higher than expected, releasing new models suggesting average temperatures worldwide could rise by 7.8°C by 2300 if fossil fuel consumption continues unchecked. Polar ice caps would melt and sea levels rise seven meters, it claimed.…