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BY PAUL COCHRANE

TURKEY’S US dollar USD2 billion (Great Britain Pounds GBP1.3 billion) Turkish paint sector is projected to grow 10% in 2010, rebounding after over a year of stagnant growth in the wake of the global financial crisis.

The country is Europe’s sixth largest paint manufacturer (for those who consider Eurasian Turkey part of Europe).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE CAREFUL phasing-out of fossil fuel subsidies could be a low-cost way to achieve UN climate change targets, according to an Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) report. It argues banning these handouts could cut global greenhouse gas emissions by 10% by 2050, compared with levels if these subsidies survive.…

BY MARK GODFREY

ANYONE familiar with Beijing’s nightlife scene will have noticed a sure rise in the number of women smokers over the past couple of years. An increase in the number of women smokers, from a small base, has encouraged a local cigarette industry facing a public ban on smoking in public places in 2011 as well as rising taxes and an anti-smoking lobby growing in assertiveness.…

BY MARK ROWE

IS the recession’s worst over for the jet fuel aviation industry? Passenger traffic during this late spring and summer has risen sharply compared with flights year-on-year, giving hope to an industry that Giovanni Bisignani, director general of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), described last year as "structurally sick".…

BY EMMA JACKSON

SAMOANS have embraced an increasingly effective method of communication to express concerns about climate change – video. Eight groups from communities within the Pacific archipelago have participated in film-making workshops sponsored by the UN Development Programme’s (UNDP) Global Environment Facility (GEF) initiative.…

BY ZLATKO CONKAS, and KEITH NUTHALL

WHEN imagining Europe’s greenest and most efficient energy systems, the countries of the former Yugoslavia do not readily spring to mind. The simple truth is Serbia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, and even Slovenia have a reputation for having ageing energy dirty systems.…

BY KARRYN MILLER, ANCA GURZU, MARK ROWE and PAUL COCHRANE

THE NEED to think out of the box to reduce carbon emissions and pollution is becoming increasingly appreciated in the Asia-Pacific region. And the coatings sector offers a range of solutions to reduce energy use.…

BY ALAN OSBORN and CRISTINA MUNTEAN

A SLEW of new European Union (EU) regulations laying down the precise conditions for road transport cabotage operations in the EU came into effect on May 14, and there are hopes they will encourage high quality and competitive haulage for materials.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE SIMPLE truth is that many consumers – especially in Europe – remain suspicious of oils and fats either derived from genetically modified crops or that have had their genetic structure modified by biotechnology. For many consumers, foodstuffs in particular should be natural and only change their character through breeding, standard processing and plain old evolution.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE HIGH profile criminal cases against ex-Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling and Canada-born former newspaper owner Lord Conrad Black have led to the United States Supreme Court reducing the scope of America’s ‘honest services’ statute, used to convict many fraudsters.…