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BY DAVID HAWORTH

EUROPE: Diversifying university income is touch task – EUA

David Haworth

The rise in Europe’s student population combined with public funding cuts across the continent are producing an unprecedented crisis which can only be met by much greater diversifying of income sources, a conference of more than 100 experts heard in Brussels this week.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE RELATIONSHIP between levels of duty and the demand for tobacco products on which these taxes are levied is at one level simple, and another complex. Obviously, if taxes were so punitive, most smokers simply could not afford a cigarette, then it would have an impact on demand.…

BY WACHIRA KIGOTHO

CLASSIFIED as a failed state, Somalia is one of the world’s poorest countries, but oil production could change its fortune. Indeed, politically fractured Somalia is being touted as a potentially rich oil and gas producer. Given security, Somalia is increasingly regarded as economically strategically-located, a view fuelled by recent interest by Chinese and western nations’ oil and gas investment companies.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE UNITED Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has called for an increase in the extraction of phosphorous from waste solids and waste water to prevent environmental problems linked to fertiliser run-off and prepare for the day when phosphate rock reserves run out.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

USA/CANADA: Endowment returns recover for north American universities

MJ Deschamps

The recession seems to be over for American and Canadian higher education institutions, with a report on the returns from their endowment funds showing a sharp increase in income for the 2010 fiscal year compared with 2009.…

BY EMMA JACKSON and KARRYN MILLER

IN October 2010, new olive oil standards came into effect in the United States for the first time since 1948, and Australia’s first olive oil standard ever is in the works. These new standards are meant to bring the two countries closer to international olive oil purity standards mandated by the Codex Alimentarius and the International Olive Council (IOC) to which Europe and other traditional olive oil-producing (and consuming) countries already adhere.…

By Alyshah Hasham, International News Services As negotiators at the recent United Nations climate change conference in Cancun wrapped up their work, one problem concentrating minds enough to secure a partial deal was the spread of disease on the coat-tails of global warming. Infectious diseases are spreading to regions where they were previously absent, driven by warmer temperatures and changing rainfall patterns. Europe and North America have been seeing an increase in cases of West Nile disease, which as the name suggests thrives in tropical and sub-tropical regions. Warmer temperatures are allowing the mosquitoes that carry the disease to roam further north. It’s a similar story for diseases such as dengue fever or tick-borne encephalitis (which causes brain inflammation).

 

The UK is by no means an exception to this trend. A recent study from the University of Plymouth concluded that the most dangerous climate-change linked threat to Britain’s environmental health could be vector borne diseases (such as Leishmaniasis – carried by the sand fly) which could spread to new areas because of warming temperatures.…

By Emma Jackson, International News Services

Global news agency International News Services Ltd – in association with world-leading business publisher Aroq Ltd - has released a major new e-book compiling global textile regulation news and analysis since 2001. This comprehensive 187 page report offers clothing and textile companies, consultants and lobbyists a survey of the sector’s rapid evolution to a free, global market in the last 10 years. The report is a detailed backgrounder of the last decade’s textile policy, collected and arranged in a concise document with monthly summaries to direct and help select topics and an essential background brief for marketers seeking to break into new markets, or lobbyists wanting to understand the rationale behind trade regulations they want changed.

The document, available from International News Services and via Aroq Ltd’s prestigious industry news service just-style.com is a must-have for business, policy makers and stakeholders in the textile industry, according to Keith Nuthall, editor of International News Services. “No where else will you find such a comprehensive regulatory history compiled into one document,” he said.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

ENERGY companies offering green solutions to developing and emerging market countries could prosper from decisions made at the latest United Nations’ (UN) climate change conference, staged in Cancún, Mexico. Delegates managed to codify informal decisions made at the 2009 Copenhagen summit as formal agreements under the UN framework convention on climate change (UNFCCC).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

The European Union’s (EU) agriculture commissioner wants to preserve or even increase EU food spending beyond its current Euro EUR44 billion-a-year whileEU national governments implement austerity cuts. In a debate yesterday (January 13) at a European Parliament policy challenges committee meeting DacianCiolo?…