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BY MARK ROWE
CLIMATE change, the general scientific consensus now holds, is taking place, and will continue to do so even were we to stop our fossil fuel emissions overnight. And while there may be jests to the effect that hotter summers would be good news for drinks manufacturers, the reality is that the drinks sector faces as many challenges as any other industry, both in terms of ingredient and energy supplies, production adjustments and related commercial issues.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
The European Commission has made a pitch for world leadership in the fight against climate change by calling on the 27 EU member states to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 20% by 2020. The move is seen as an example to other countries of the kind of action needed in the post-Kyoto period if there should be no further international agreement for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by then.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa
TO land a better tax and royalty deal, the government of Newfoundland & Labrador has rejected a proposal from a consortium including Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Petro-Canada and Norsk Hydro to expand Hibernia, Canada’s largest oil field, about 300 kilometres offshore Newfoundland island.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
Shaking off fears that the American/Canadian price differential would put off book-buyers, Canadian bookshops had a good Christmas with 71% of members of the Canadian Booksellers Association reporting higher sales compared to the 2005 period. Over a quarter of all respondents said sales were up by more than 10%.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced it will spend around Euro 4 million helping Cypriot, Greek and Portuguese wine producers export to the USA, Canada, Japan, China, India and other big non-European Union (EU) markets. As usual in these cases, Brussels is funding 50% of planned marketing programmes, matching financing from national governments or private sources.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced it will spend Euro 870,000 over two years in helping Polish meat producers and processors export to the USA, Canada, Japan, China, India and other big non-European Union (EU) markets. As usual in these cases, Brussels is funding 50% of planned marketing programmes, matching financing coming from nation governments or private sources.…

BY LARS RUGAARD, in Copenhagen

THERE are high hopes in Greenland for oil wealth of North Sea dimensions as major oil companies embark on new exploration quests in Arctic conditions. This follows discoveries 15 years ago, when scientists found oil seepages at Greenland’s Nuussuaq peninsula and ever since reports have been made to the international oil sector of enormous deposits of fossil energy below the ice seas surrounding the huge ice-covered island.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa

THE CANADIAN province of Ontario is refusing to join six other provinces in a multibillion-dollar lawsuit against big tobacco companies, leaving the western province of British Columbia to lead the fight.

Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty has said: "There are two agendas here.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced it will spend around Euro 4.7 million in helping German, Greek, Italian and Polish food producers and processors export to the USA, Canada, Japan, China, India and other big non-European Union (EU) markets.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa

CANADIAN tobacco companies have voluntarily agreed to remove descriptors such as ‘light’, ‘mild’ and similar variations from their cigarette packaging from next summer.

Imperial Tobacco Canada Ltd, Rothmans Benson & Hedges Inc. and JTI-Macdonald Corp. will each phase out these slogans on affected brands and products from December 31, 2006, with an implementation deadline of July 31, 2007.…