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New textile e-book offers invaluable resource
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 157 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.…
ITALIAN TOBACCO PRODUCERS DECIDE TO MAKE MOST OF EU LIBERALISATION REFORMS
BY ERIC J LYMAN
AS the final phase of the European Union’s (EU) tobacco sector reform gets set to go into effect, indications are that Europe’s largest tobacco producing country, Italy, is better prepared than it was for the earlier phases.…
Antarctica's ice is melting - but will its protective treaty melt too?
By Mark Rowe
As with the Arctic – where sea ice is disappearing faster than most scientists had anticipated – Antarctica is thought to hold fossil fuel resources, along with new drugs, industrial compounds and some commercial applications.
The retreat of south polar ice is raising some concern that the Antarctic Treaty, which protects the continent from development and which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, could be threatened by a global desire for development.…
BRUSSELS GIVES FOOD SECTOR A BREAK ON CARBON EMISSIONS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
KEY elements of the European Union (EU) food industry should be exempt from the EU’s plans to auction carbon dioxide emissions permits from 2013. The European Commission has unveiled a draft list of businesses it fears could relocate to jurisdictions with weaker climate change rules.…
AUSTRALIA: Polymer nanofibres find strength in carbon
Emma Jackson
Researchers at Australia’s Deakin University have found a way to strengthen plastic nanofibres, using carbon nanotubes to make them up to 400% stronger than ever before and leading to possible new commercial applications.
Already used in technology for optoelectronics, filter systems and as catalysts, these special reinforced polymer nanofibres may now be strong enough for new technologal uses in medicine, the environment, energy and security, claims lead researcher Minoo Naebe (NOTE: SPELLING CORRECT).…
HOW TO MEASURE BIOFUEL GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS - A TOUGH TASK
BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT is a mind-bending question. How on earth, given the complexity and variety of available biofuels, their feedstocks and manufacturing processes, can their relative ‘green-ness’ be measured efficiently? But, to the delight of mathematicians and technical consultants the world over, this toughest of queries has to be answered.…
TEXTILE INDUSTRIES TO BE EXEMPT FROM EU CARBON AUCTION
BY EMMA JACKSON
KEY elements of the European Union (EU) textile and clothing industry should be exempt from the EU’s plans to auction carbon dioxide emissions permits from 2013. The European Commission has unveiled a draft list of businesses it fears could relocate to jurisdictions with weaker climate change rules.…
REPORT HIGHLIGHTS EUROPEAN CAR MARKERS' UNEVEN PROGRESS ON IMPROVING CO2 EMISSIONS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN ENVIRONMENTAL report is suggesting that auto manufacturers only make reductions to the greenhouse gas emissions from their models when ordered to by compulsory legislation. Europe’s Transport and Environment (T&E) group has released statistics showing that auto manufacturers who have done well in moving towards European Union (EU) emission standards slackened their anti-pollution technical innovation last year.…
POOR DEAL FOR NUCLEAR IN EU CARBON TRADING EXEMPTIONS
BY EMMA JACKSON
MOST nuclear energy activities have been left out of a new European Commission list of industries exempt from the European Union’s (EU) plans to auction carbon dioxide emissions permits from 2013.
Brussels unveiled on September 18 (NOTE – JEREMY ACTUALLY THIS WAS RELEASED LATE FRIDAY) a draft list of industrial and business sectors it fears could relocate outside Europe to jurisdictions with weaker climate change rules in future.…
BLOCK EXEMPTIONS IN THE AUTOMOTIVE SECTOR
BY EMMA JACKSON and KEITH NUTHALL
THE RELATIONSHIP the automotive sales and aftermarket sector have with car makers is clearly a key issue, if not the key issue, that concerns Automotive Management readers. As a result, the current review of the European Union’s (EU) block exemption from EU competition law for the auto sector is being scrutinised carefully.…