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BY MARK ROWE

SUPERFICIALLY at least, it sounds like an unlikely scenario: Russia, the 21st century’s face of fossil fuel sources, now wants to go green. The Russian Energy Agency last spring signed an agreement committing itself to help the country improve energy efficiency in industry and housing; develop a renewable energy market; and – the end goal – reduce greenhouse gas emissions.…

BY CRAIG HOWIE AND MJ DESCHAMPS

SINCE a ban on smoking tobacco on American naval submarines was enacted on last December 31, the number of sailors turning from cigarettes to smokeless tobacco products has boomed, a naval expert has told Tobacco Journal International.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

INDIA is known for its rich history of garment making traditions; however, its knitwear manufacturing centres have been facing serious labour shortages of late – leading to the underutilisation of capacity, spiralling costs and even relocation of some factories to more rural areas.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

A NEW European Commission proposal on energy efficiency and saving may have the basic ingredients of a new, potential approach for helping the European Union (EU) to achieve its 2020 emission-reduction objectives – getting utilities to share the pain with consumers, who have been the focus of earlier EU efforts in this regard.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THIS year could be the year when the European Union (EU) shows that it has the money and the strategy to increase EU broadband capacity to a level allowing new Internet-based technologies to thrive. It is a key goal of its much-lauded EU Digital Agenda, bringing basic broadband to all EU citizens by 2013 and ensuring that, by 2020, they have access to much higher internet speeds of above 30 Mbps and that half or more of European households subscribe to Internet connections above 100 Mbps.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

THE OZONE layer, which has oft been called the ‘Earth’s sunscreen’ has been depleting for years over the southern hemisphere; but now, with a recent report by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) that major depletion in the ozone layer has been found over the northern hemisphere, Europeans might be more inclined to trade in their tan lines for suntan lotion this summer.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE

Cavotec Middle East, the Dubai-based engineering group and airport systems integrator, has won a multimillion-dollar contract to supply advanced ground support equipment for the world’s largest dedicated A380 terminal (Concourse 3), at Dubai International Airport

The contract, whose exact value has yet to be announced – announced at the Dubai Airport Show on May 31, 2011, will see the company deploy its ‘pop-up pits’ technology, which is in demand in the Middle East due to the climate extremes.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

A major change in food production policy and practice is needed to feed the growing world population without over-exploiting natural resources, according to a new report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD).

Its ‘Green Growth Strategy for Food and Agriculture’ strategy released yesterday (June 21) advises governments on avoiding conflicts between population growth and environmental impact.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

PERSONALISED medicines are one of those innovations that are so patently a good idea, it is almost inconceivable that they will not be the norm in 10 or 20 years’ time. Taking pharmaceuticals without checking your molecular make up for side-effect risks will probably be seen as dumb, or worse, the subject of negligence claims.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A KEY European business organisation has warned that Germany’s planned abandoning of nuclear power could have consequences across Europe, wants the European Commission to assess how the decision could affect the whole European Union (EU).

Employers group BusinessEurope has written to EU energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger asking him to probe the "short- and medium-term impacts…on energy costs, such as for electricity or gas, energy security and CO2 prices in Europe."…