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BY KEITH NUTHALL, GAVIN BLAIR, and MARK GODFREY

BACK in November 2008, long before the accession of Barack Obama to the US presidency, world leaders gathered together under the G20 banner to forge a common response to the ongoing financial crisis.…

BY LEE ADENDORFF

IT has been a devastating year for Italian hauliers. In the last 10 months, 8,000 mostly single-vehicle hauliers have left the industry according to Gianni Montalli, president of the National Transport Union (CAN FITA Unione Nazionale Imprese di Trasporto).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AS 2009 dawns, the European Union’s (EU) renewable energy sector knows that it has truly entered the mainstream of EU utility markets, its growth being sanctioned by ambitious legislation approved before Christmas.

After more than a year of debates, the European Parliament and EU ministers have approved a new EU directive imposing mandatory national targets for the 27 member states regarding the portion of their gross final consumption of energy in 2020 coming from renewable sources.…

BY ERIC LYMAN

BATTLE lines have been drawn in negotiations to renew the Kyoto Protocol over the future shape of energy policy within future United Nations efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. At December’s climate change summit, in Poznan, Poland, a key power industry issue has emerged as a primary point of discord: whether or not carbon capture and storage technologies should be allowed in a revised Kyoto Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).…

BY LEE ADENDORFF, in Lucca, Italy; PHILIPPA JONES, in Paris; DOMINIQUE PATTON, in Beijing; KARRYN CARTELLE, in Tokyo; and LUCY JONES, in Dallas

Where is the best cutting edge research for the textile and clothing industry? Which are the best design schools, the best fabric developers and the best industrial innovators in the sector?…

BY PHILIPPA JONES, DOMINIQUE PATTON and LUCY JONES

The growth in outsourcing within the clothing and textile sector worldwide has highlighted a key issue, and that is the relative merits of running an integrated company that handles basic production and design, or relying on a string of specialist suppliers to deliver the goods, from fibre supplies, to textile manufacture, design, clothing assembly and retail.…

BY MICHAEL ROSTON

ENERGY policy has been at the front and center of American politics, and played a major role in the 2008 presidential election. The candidates, Senators Barack Obama and John McCain, skirmished often on the best ways to deal with the cost of energy and global climate change, with Obama making the creation of millions of green jobs a centerpiece of his appeal to American voters.…

BY RUSSELL BERMAN

THE INTERNATIONAL cosmetics industry is watching closely for signs of regulatory changes that could be afoot under the incoming Obama administration and a new Congress in the United States, with increased Democratic majorities.

Maybe the biggest question is over environmental policy, where the president-elect has pledged to be much more aggressive than George W Bush and may push for added regulations that would prove costly to leading cosmetics firms.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved harmonising EU

chemical labelling rules with those of the United Nations Globally

Harmonised System. This will change some warning messages and pictograms,

with the aim of making them better understood.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) director general Pascal Lamy bowed to

sluggish progress in the Doha Development Round and admitted hopes for a

2008 deal had been dashed. He said in Geneva that because the positions of

member countries had failed to "change dramatically", he would not summon

trade ministers to Geneva for a meeting before Christmas.…