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BY ERIC LYMAN

BATTLE lines have been drawn in negotiations to renew the Kyoto Protocol over the future shape of energy policy within future United Nations efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. At December’s climate change summit, in Poznan, Poland, a key power industry issue has emerged as a primary point of discord: whether or not carbon capture and storage technologies should be allowed in a revised Kyoto Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).…

By ALAN OSBORN

For long the Cinderella of the engineering industry, nuclear power appears to be regaining its popularity as a career choice with a surprising increase in university courses, mainly but not exclusively in the US. In some countries, like France, enthusiasm has never faltered and a clear career pattern in nuclear sciences has been established for years.…

By Alan Osborn

FEW things say more about the growing enthusiasm for nuclear power than the rush of young students eager to make a career in the industry. It is happening mainly in America but other countries are now beginning to see the same development.…

BY MARK ROWE

THE CHOCOLATE giant Mars has begun work on sequencing the cocoa genome, a move that it says could dramatically improve the health and yields of cocoa growers around the world, guaranteeing food manufacturers with more reliable and high quality supplies.…

BY JAMES FLYNN

RUSSIAN organised crime has left its fingerprints across eastern and western Europe in recent years. But now the gangs have begun to turn their sights on the international shipping industry, manipulating documents that are fundamental to the movement of international cargo for their own – usually money laundering – ends.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

FEW things say more about the growing enthusiasm for nuclear power than the rush of young students eager to make a career in the industry. It is happening mainly in America but other countries are now beginning to see the same development.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

OFFICIALS at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) have told just-food.com an attempt to quickly restart and resolve the Doha Development Round’s food talks seems to have failed. Senior government civil servants from the Group of Seven (the USA, the European Union, China, India, Japan, Australia and Brazil), who broadly represent all WTO member countries, had flown to Geneva last week.…

By Alan Osborn

Three young researchers, from Poland, Slovakia and Britain, were awarded the top prizes in the EU Contest for Young Scientists in Copenhagen on September 25th against competition from national scientific prize-winners from 39 European countries plus Brazil, Canada, China, Mexico, New Zealand and the USA.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

SUSTAINABILITY has moved firmly to the top of the corporate agenda in the oils and fats sector following Unilever’s announcement in May that it intended to have all of its palm oil certified sustainable by 2015. By any measure this would be a bold pledge but coming from the world’s largest consumer of palm oil (Unilever takes 4% of total global production to make its food and cosmetic products) it serves additionally to raise the bar for others.…

BY JAMES BURNS

REYNOLDS American Inc has announced the appointment of Luc Jobin and Holly K. Koeppel to its board of directors. Both will serve on the board’s audit and finance committee.

The parent company of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Conwood Company, LLC, Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company, and R.J.…