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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has accepted a proposed directive on rules for the storage of metallic mercury, passing the legislation to the European Parliament for its final scrutiny. Ministers made one small change to the law – so that member states will have to comply with these rules from March 2013 rather than 2012.…

BY MARK ROWE

FOR the pharmaceutical industry, nanotechnology has until recently been a horizon issue. The public focus has lain elsewhere – on novel foods and super-efficient electronic devices. But nanomedicine was brought to prominence in July with the news that a patient received a new windpipe grown from a nanomaterial-based tissue scaffold, seeded with the patient’s own stem cells.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

THE BRITISH government’s attempts to try and meet the European Union (EU) 2020 renewable energy goals through feed-in tariff payments for household energy production have been attacked by Conservative MEP Roger Helmer, who calls these tactics "absurdly over-generous" and unsustainable.…

BY MARK GODFREY

SOFT loans from a cash-rich bevvy of state banks; direct payments to help build manufacturing bases; and tax breaks for firms using local components – these are all forms of state support currently helping China’s wind turbine and solar panel makers capture global market share.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

With drink consumers increasingly choosing beverage options that fit their lifestyles – and do not just quench their thirst – innovations taking place in drinks packaging show that in the future, containers will be just as important as contents.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

In 20 years’ time, consumers might be looking back on today’s beverage market and laughing at the fact that people were once buying drinks just because they were thirsty.

"We’re going to start seeing a whole lot of new, nutritional ingredients popping up in our drinks soon – functionality will be the biggest theme in 20 years," said Tom Pirko, president of California-based international food and beverage advisory firm Bevmark LLC.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Parliament has backed an activist role for European Union (EU) institutions in constructing energy infrastructure that cannot get sufficient market financing, yet promotes EU energy policy goals.

A detailed resolution, for instance, backed the idea of issuing ‘EU project bonds’ to help finance pipelines, interconnectors and high power cables.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

CANADIAN publishers have attacked the decision by the country’s biggest bookshop chain Indigo Books & Music Inc, to stock fewer books and evaluate returns on a shorter timeframe. They claim it is putting extra pressure on the publishing industry when digital technology is already imposing major challenges.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, MARK ROWE, GERARD O’DWYER, ALAN OSBORN and MJ DESCHAMPS

COGENERATION has been something of a test-bed for European Union (EU) energy development policy, and like any experiment, some things have worked and others have not. Also, because other energy priorities have become the subject of more effective legislation recently, cogeneration has been left behind to some extent in the EU’s push for a cleaner, greener, sustainable and more liberal energy sector.…

BY WANG FANGQING, MINI PANT ZACHARIAH, PACIFICA GODDARD and MARK ROWE

WITH average incomes in the world’s emerging markets starting to approach western levels – at least in major urban areas – drinks companies are catering to increasingly expensive and refined tastes.…