Search Results for: Climate change

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed changes to the European Union’s (EU) regulation fighting counterfeiting of the Euro, which would force financial institutions to check that used-currency they receive is legitimate, ahead of re-circulating it. Under the amendments, banks, bureaux de change and credit institutions would "be obliged to ensure that Euro notes and coins which they have received… are checked for authenticity and counterfeits are detected."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, in the real world, and BELINDA BLESSED, in Second Life

EVERY decade or so comes a technology that is so new, comprehensive, interesting, and damn useful, that it completely changes the way that we have fun and do business.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

THE EUROPEAN Commission will in November propose a significant switch of cash away from direct payments for food producers into rural development programmes, which could cover non-food industries, under a reform of the Common Agricultural Policy, said Michael Mann, Brussels spokesman for agriculture.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

THE MONEY Laundering Bulletin has found effects of the European Union’s (EU) second money laundering directive’s (2MLD) extension of EU anti-money laundering regulations to a range of businesses and professions are complicated by differences in the definition of the professions between the 27 member states.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa, and KEITH NUTHALL

IT would almost be hard for Canada not to be one of the seafood industry’s largest global players. After all, surrounded by the Arctic, Atlantic and Pacific oceans and the Great Lakes as well, Canada has the world’s longest coastline (244,000 km).…

BY MARK GODFREY, in Yunnan province, China

"MEDIOCRITY and non-merit are wrong!" The resolute call to excellence in Chinese characters greets visitors the lobby of the twenty floor hemispherical office tower to which visitors to Yuxi Hongta cigarette plant.

Run by the state-owned Hongta group, the Yuxi plant hires a staff of 2,500 to produce an annual 2.5 million cases of cigarettes, including iconic local brands like Yuxi, Hongmei and Hongtashan, as well as Imperial Tobacco’s West brand.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission is preparing to launch a public consultation on a suggested calculation formula for road charging within the European Union (EU) taking transport impact costs into account. The complex factors involved in pricing tolls were effectively ducked when the latest 2006 road charging ‘Eurovignette’ directive was passed in 2006, and the legislation told the Commission to draft a formula by June 2008.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

WITH packaged goods moving with ever greater freedom and speed between the member states of the European Union (EU), it is of no surprise that the EU has legislated extensively to regulate the industry. It is a raison d’être of the EU to create harmonised rules of key economic importance to oil trade between its member states, and also to minimise cross-border problems such as pollution.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

AS a demonstration of how the top higher education people from across the world can meet, debate, agree and disagree without ever losing sight of their common goals as academic leaders you would find it hard to better the 4-yearly conference of the UNESCO-based International Association of Universities (IAU).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE INTERNATIONAL Organization for Standardization (NOTE – USES AMERICAN SPELLING FOR ITS NAME) has launched a new CD-ROM containing its ISO 14000 group of environmental management standards, including those on greenhouse gas emissions accounting and verification. It also includes the new ISO 14065:2007 standard that lays down requirements for accrediting bodies auditing and certifying climate change and emissions trading schemes.…