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BY DAVID HAWORTH

University rankings can sometimes be confusing, and should not be the basis of devising policy, said Jean-Marc Rapp, (NOTE – SPELLING IS CORRECT) European University Association (EUA) president, at the EUA’s spring meeting in Brussels at the end of January, "because universities are confronted with rankings every day."…

BY EMMA JACKSON

THIS April, the long-awaited carbon reduction commitment (CRC) scheme will commence in the UK, bringing in the first phase of a carbon emissions trading programme unlike any other in Europe.

The programme covers virtually everything the European Union’s (EU) emissions trading scheme (ETS) does not: any corporation, company or business – including transport and agriculture – which consumes more than 6,000 megawatt hours (MWh) per year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

GERMAN engineering giant Siemens has agreed to spend US$100 million over 15 years helping non-profit organisations worldwide promoting business integrity and fighting corruption, after falling short on ethics. The announcement is part of an agreement with the World Bank that will see Siemens "refrain from bidding" for the bank’s business until this coming December (2010).…

BY EMMA JACKSON

PAINT companies looking for an edge as they recover from the global financial crisis may find a solution in the form of robotics. Cost effective, efficient and consistent, robots are increasingly pushing out the humans who have traditionally helped manufacture paint and coatings or applied it to products such as cars and machinery.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

IN the world rankings of big polluters, airports occupy a very respectable position near the foot of the table. The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) estimates that aviation’s total CO2 emissions account for 2% of the global total, with airports themselves accounting for only up to 5% of that air industry tranche.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EVERYONE loves a package deal – especially criminals. The fast-paced international financial securities trade offers a complex business prone to fraud with the means to launder ill-gotten gains at the same time. Keith Nuthall reports.

THE RECESSION has given plenty of examples of how, as Warren Buffet eloquently put it, "only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked."…

BY EMMA JACKSON

FOR manufacturers of cores, chucks, shafts and their accessories, these necessary pieces of converting machinery are not just basic equipment, resistant to change or innovation. As Emma Jackson reports, manufacturers across Europe and in the US have been innovating on all fronts – making greener, more efficient systems, increasing customer convenience, and embracing stronger and more resilient materials to make sure the equipment can withstand increasingly fast-paced converting processes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

SOUTH African companies are being encouraged by a World Bank agency to employ more women in mines. The bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) regards the feminisation of this traditionally male industrial bastion as a key tool for social and economic development.…

By Alan Osborn and Mitch Vandenborn, International News Services

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

THE COPENHAGEN conference on global warming may failed to have delivered a comprehensive global warming deal, but it did at least highlight an international consensus on the need to fight climate change and conserve energy: as a result, the global sales of paints and coatings that reflect heat and hence reduce the need for air conditioning are likely to rise.…