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BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Tripoli and Beirut

THE OPENING up of Libya’s economy could not have come at a better time for international oil companies, which have been beset in recent years by dwindling easily accessible oil reserves, tighter controls over exploration rights and extraction, and heightened security concerns.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A COMPREHENSIVE raft of new legislation designed to force the European Union (EU) into further reducing its greenhouse gas emissions has been tabled by the European Commission. It would force the power industry – which accounts for a majority of CO2 emissions – to purchase saleable emissions trading permits by auction from 2013, not given them, as at present.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

NESTLÉ and Cadbury Schweppes have joined a global group of blue chip companies spanning a range of economic sectors in assessing the greenhouse gas they generate throughout their production and supply chains. The Carbon Disclosure Project will aim this year to create a standardised system for major companies wanting to measure their climate change footprint.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

WHILE most informed people now agree it is important that greenhouse gas emissions are reduced across the global economy, the question about which methods to choose for achieving this have generated far less consensus and nowhere is this truer than with the road transport sector.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

SOMETHING must be in the water these days in Brussels. The European Commission seems determined to press ahead with its plans to reshape the European Union’s (EU) energy market, no matter how vociferous or powerful the opposition. In December, the Commission was bullish about unbundling, now it is being equally aggressive over renewable energy.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

IMPERIAL Tobacco has joined a global group of blue chip companies spanning a range of economic sectors in assessing the greenhouse gas they generate throughout their production and supply chains. The Carbon Disclosure Project will aim this year to create a standardised system for major companies wanting to measure their climate change footprint.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

BRITAIN’S Gambling Commission says that 68% of the UK population gambles – wagering some GBPounds 91.5 billion in 2006. This is big money on the face of it, although if ‘soft’ gambling like the National Lottery, bingo and things like the annual flutter on the Grand National is excluded, the figure drops by about half, with casinos, betting shops and racetrack bookmakers representing the core elements.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A UNITED Nations Environment Programme specialist has warned the European Parliament of concerns that water shortages are preventing nuclear plant operators from obtaining sufficient supplies to cool their reactors. UNEP’s Kaveh Zahedi told the European Parliament climate change committee that at least 24 nuclear plants in the south-eastern USA face shutting down or limiting operations over droughts and that last year in Italy, low water levels on the River Po sparked proposals to suspend operations at nearby plants.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-funded research consortium plans to create intelligent protective clothing that alerts construction managers immediately if a worker is hurt in an accident. The INTELTEX group is developing textile technology integrating intelligent carbon nanotube material into standard hard-wearing yarns.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

VEHICLE manufacturers, and even leasing and rental companies, may have to grapple with the complexity of trading greenhouse gas emissions from 2013, should the European Commission conclude this year that road transport must operate under tradeable pollution permits.…