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Greenland’s semi-autonomous government and main opposition parties have united against a new report that seriously questions the island’s ability to secure independence from Denmark based solely on its future mineral wealth. The ice-bound island, the report concluded, needed to build a strong and more diversified economy before full independence became a viable long-term option or ambition.…

IRAN and Turkey are regional giants within the Middle East oilseeds sector, and while their industries have been performing the threat of political instability and unstable energy subsidies threaten their profits.

According to Bill Baker, foreign agricultural service analyst at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Turkey and Iran constitute the two “major producers of oilseed crops in the Middle East.”…

THE NEW Euro EUR78.6 billion research funding programme of the European Union (EU), Horizon 2020 offers opportunities for developing novel coatings that could be used to improve the insulation of buildings to make them more energy efficient.

The first calls for project proposals opened in December 2013.…

SHALE gas has been inadvertently discovered by Norwegian researchers on the remote Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. The discovery, in the northernmost part of Norway, has prompted a debate over whether this could be an important addition to the world’s ever-increasing supplies of shale.…

THE REPRESENTATIVES of the European oil and gas industry would like to see one single target to be achieved by the energy sector until 2030 to fight climate change, going against the two targets proposed by the European Commission.

In a major policy paper looking to reduce carbon emission beyond 2020, the European Commission said on January 22 that it would like to set a mandatory GHG emissions reduction target of 40% by 2030, an increase of 20% from the current 2020 target.…

THE CIVIL conflict and political tension that has wracked South Sudan since December has delayed already difficult discussions about building a new oil pipeline to this troubled, oil-rich and landlocked country. As it stands, South Sudan – the world’s newest country – has only one option for exporting its crude: a pipeline cutting through Sudan – the country from which it seceded in 2011, following a decades-long civil war.…

Since a European Union (EU) court scrapped anti-dumping duties on steel tubes from one of China’s oldest steel companies, Hubei Xinyegang Steel last month, tongues have started wagging in Brussels over whether the EU will change how it handles anti-dumping cases.…

As Myanmar’s economic and political reforms continue at a steady pace, its indigenous traditional textiles could become commercialised. Myanmar does not yet systematically export its traditional fabrics and there are no official associations to promote the industry. It currently relies largely on tourists for small-scale revenues.…

South Korea’s plans to drastically cut the number of university places in the country over the next decade, because of declining population rates, has caused unease and disquiet within the country’s higher education. The South Korean minister of education Seo Nam-soo has said the government plans to cut 160,000 university places by 2023.…

A FIRST set of technical standards saying how European manufacturers should build technologies that enable vehicles to communicate with each other and with roadside communications infrastructure has been released. The European Committee for Standardization (CEN) and the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) have issued an initial set of standards for cooperative intelligence transport systems (C-ITS) – called Release 1 – following a request from the European Commission in 2009.…