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BY MONICA DOBIE, in New York QUESTION GLOBAL warming is destroying the ice cap habitat of the Arctic’s iconic polar bear. Recently, the Bush administration proposed that the polar bear should be added the US ‘threatened’ species list because warming temperatures are melting ice flows where bears hunt seals.…

BY CHRISTOPHER JONES, in Brussels
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) headline-grabbing proposals to reduce EU carbon emissions by 20% by 2020 could prove overly ambitious, according to the new secretary general of Eurelectric, the industry association representing the electricity industry at the EU level.…

BY CHRISTOPHER JONES, in Brussels

THE EUROPEAN Commission could be making the cost of producing greener energy more expensive and artificially distorting Europe’s energy mix into the bargain, according to the new secretary general of Eurelectric, the group that represents the electricity industry at the European level.…

BY PHILIPPA JONES, in Paris
SIMPLE cost-effective actions can help road hauliers run more efficient businesses, reduce their fuel bills and improve their environmental credentials, expert speakers have told an international conference on fuel efficiency in Paris.

Fuel accounts for at least 30% of operating costs in most road transport operations, but few, if any, haulage companies are really maximising the potential to be more fuel efficient, according to Jonathan James, a consultant with Faber Maunsell.…

BY PHILIPPA JONES, in Paris

SIMPLE cost-effective actions can help road hauliers run more efficient businesses, reduce their fuel bills and improve their environmental credentials, expert speakers have told an international conference on fuel efficiency in Paris.

Fuel accounts for at least 30% of operating costs in most road transport operations, but few, if any, haulage companies are really maximising the potential to be more fuel efficient, according to Jonathan James, a consultant with Faber Maunsell.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

ONE consequence of the growing sophistication of anti-money laundering procedures at the major banks in Europe in recent years is that criminals have turned increasingly to less regulated channels such as bureaux de change and money service businesses to hide criminal proceeds.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
RESEARCHERS developing innovative renewable energy technology and solutions to deal with climate change should benefit from a decision by the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers to move ahead with controversial proposals to create a European Institute of Technology (EIT).…

BY ALAN OSBORN
ONE consequence of the growing sophistication of anti-money laundering procedures at the major banks in Europe in recent years is that criminals have turned increasingly to less regulated channels such as bureaux de change and money service businesses to hide criminal proceeds.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE CREATION of a European Institute of Technology (EIT) now looks likely, despite widespread opposition from academics, especially in Britain. The European Union (EU) Council of Ministers has backed a draft regulation giving the EIT a Euro 308.7 million budget over six years from January 2008.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CREATION of a European Institute of Technology (EIT) now looks likely, despite widespread opposition from academics, especially in Britain. The European Union (EU) Council of Ministers has backed a draft regulation giving the EIT a Euro 308.7 million budget over six years from January 2008.…