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BY KEITH NUTHALL

should carry nutritional or health claim information in future, to help the European Commission draft an approved claim list by 2010. EFSA’s scientific panel on dietetic products, nutrition and allergies has concluded that the Commission’s main concern should be "the potential of a food to adversely affect overall dietary balance" given accepted nutrient intake recommendations.…

By Keith Nuthall

"The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability", US automobile magnate Henry Ford once opined. And by that measure, the higher education should surely be the world’s richest.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE ORGANISATION for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) has put the waste sector at the heart of an ‘affordable’ strategy to prevent potentially disastrous environmental and economic problems caused by climate change.

Under current government policies worldwide, global greenhouse gases may grow 37% by 2030, and 52% by 2050, warned the OECD’s 2008 Environmental Outlook report.…

By Mark Godfrey in Beijing

No country has added nuclear power like energy-hungry China. Neighbouring North Korea had more nuclear power capacity than China in 2000 (as did Taiwan). But by 2010, according to the US government-affiliated Energy Information Administration, China will have bypassed both countries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Parliament wants reforms to European Union (EU) regulations to promote the production of biogas, but only from organic sources, such as biomass, food waste and agricultural debris. A report approved by MEPs called on the European Commission to change rules on EU regional and rural development funds to ensure biogas plant investment was covered.…

By Alan Osborn

Environment ministers of the 27 EU countries met in Brussels last week and gave broad public backing to the European Commission’s plans for tackling climate change and energy supply though privately some delegations were reported to be unhappy with important details.…

BY MARK GODFREY, in Beijing

METHANE recovery is a boom industry in China. A frenetic dig for coal to drive its economy means atmospheric concentrations of methane are growing. And this is a problem – methane is not only a greenhouse gas that retains 25 times more heat than carbon dioxide, it hangs around in the atmosphere a lot longer.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

A LOT of confusion has arisen over the European Commission’s proposals for an Agency for the Co-operation of Energy Regulators (ACER) in the EU, published last September as part of a drive to create a common energy policy for the 27 EU member states.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels

THE DEVELOPMENT of university autonomy in Europe is a prerequisite for getting more funds from private and public sources concluded a European University Association (EUA) two-day conference in Brussels last week. Whilst technical finance issues were dominant in the discussions by 120 education experts from 30 different countries, autonomy was a recurring issue at the conference.…

By Renée Cordes, in Brussels

Europe’s universities and companies must work together as a matter of urgency to ensure a more productive, mobile workforce, European Union (EU) education Commissioner Ján Figel has told the first European University/Business Forum in Brussels.

"Europe a has been too weak for too long in bringing the worlds of university academia and business enterprise together, to achieve successful commercial exploitation of academic excellence," he said, adding that universities here have tended to shy away from ‘getting their hands dirty with business.…