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BY ALYSHAH HASHAM

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.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

WITH sales of biofuels still very much in their nascent stage and concerns rising about the environmental impact of biofuels growing, research and development into ‘second-generation’ biofuels is going ahead apace. And a key element of this work is lowering CO2 emissions from fuel by using waste alternative sources of material for conversion to biofuel.…

BY JOHN PAGNI

NORDICS take their global civic responsibilities seriously – paying more than mere lip-service to requests to cut global warming emissions especially. Finland is a case in point, putting its money where its mouth is when it comes to renewable fuels.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN ENVIRONMENTAL review of Japanese public policy by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) has said "more must be done to reduce reliance on fossil fuels and to achieve Japan’s climate targets…" The OECD noted Japan was far from its Kyoto Protocol goals, recommending a "mandatory cap-and-trade scheme in combination with a carbon tax."…

BY ALYSHAH HASHAM

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.…

BY ERIC J LYMAN

ONE of the subsidiary bodies negotiating groups within the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun has finalised language that takes carbon capture and storage technologies (CCS) to the brink of being included in the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE INTERNATIONAL Energy Agency (IEA) has warned the feeble outcome of last year’s Copenhagen conference on global warming has inflated the probable cost until 2035 of limiting temperature increases by 2C by US dollars USD1 trillion between now and 2035.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

IT maybe an impossible task: but the European Union (EU) is trying to assess the environmental impact of biofuels sufficiently accurately todraft regulations that promote green biofuels, rather than generate too many greenhouse gas emissions. The European Commission last month (December) announced that rules on laying down sustainability standards for the direct impact on greenhouse gas emissions from biofuel production were now in force.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

ATTEMPTING to symbolize the Indian essence of Toyota’s latest sedan made for India’s burgeoning auto market, a Japanese dancer performed classical Indian dance at a special launch concert in the IT hub of Bangalore. The Japanese auto giant will be hoping that the ‘Etios’ will marry high tech and Indian consumer preferences, as a culmination of a four-year-long development process that cost US dollars USD700 million and involved more than 2,000 engineers.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

WITH sales of biofuels still very much in their nascent stage and concerns rising about the environmental impact of biofuels growing, research and development into ‘second-generation’ biofuels is going ahead apace. And a key element of this work is lowering CO2 emissions from fuel by using waste alternative sources of material for conversion to biofuel.…