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KEITH NUTHALL
THE CZECH Republic has been urged to improve its energy efficiency record, with the International Energy Agency (IEA) pointing out energy intensity fell just 17% from 1990 to 2002, compared with 23% in Hungary, 27% in Slovakia and 39% in Poland.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FIGHT against international money laundering may need resources and determination, but what it most needs is intelligence. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) knows this well, spreading the word about new threats. Keith Nuthall reports.

LIKE every international organisation, it seems, FATF is fond of acronyms and jargon.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DESPITE the increase in global prices for coal since 2003, European Union (EU) coal producing countries still need to restructure their industries, a detailed European Commission survey has noted. Highlighting the increase in spot price for South African steam coal from US$36 in early 2003 to US$74 at the end of 2004, the report cited higher freight rates for Australian coal caused by rising demand in China and solid demand in Japan and South Korea, enabling “traditional suppliers” to the Atlantic market to raise their prices.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CREATION of a European centre for drug safety, coordinating safety checks staged by biomedical pharmaceutical manufacturers, has been proposed by a European Technology Platform on innovative medicines. The private-public group made the suggestion in a biomedicine strategic research agenda, which aims to improve predictivity of safety evaluation and efficacy assessments; knowledge management, and training.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE STEEP decline in sales of European Union (EU) finished leather to its number one market, the United States, has been highlighted by a comprehensive report on the global leather (and textile) market written for the European Commission.…

BY MARK ROWE
INTRODUCTION

WEATHER forecasting has evolved somewhat beyond the reliance of medieval truisms such as rain on St Swithin’s Day meant 40 more days of showers. But better weather forecasts are only any use if we are able to respond to such information accordingly and effectively.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Telecommunications Union (ITU) has launched a global regulatory toolkit, helping developing country governments and telecoms regulators design laws and regulations effectively controlling their increasingly complex telecommunications and Internet sectors. *http://www.ictregulationtoolkit.org/…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN IRISH company’s plan to help 1,600 meat and dairy producers in Latin America adopt technology capturing and disposing of methane has been supported by a US$10 million loan from the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC). AgCert International plc actually wants to spend US$150 million on rolling out these systems over the next three years, especially in Brazil and Mexico.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL team of scientists will cooperate for the next five years in a Euro 7 million research project developing odour traps and effective repellents to keep malarial mosquitoes away from potential human hosts. This Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative will unite US, Dutch, Tanzania and Gambia researchers.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
FIGHTING money laundering is about getting your hands dirty. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) may pronounce global standards that it would like jurisdictions to follow, but all governments need help, and often regional bodies are better placed to do the detailed work than more remote global organisations.…