Search Results for: Climate change

BY ALAN OSBORN, in London
THE EUROPEAN auto industry is keeping a close eye on the European Commission at the moment, where a heavyweight political struggle is being staged over whether mandatory CO2 caps should be imposed on auto manufacturers. At the heart of this dispute is an argument over whether companies should shoulder the burden of reducing CO2 emissions from new vehicles or whether the job should also involve people like fuel suppliers, tire and other components suppliers and even consumers.…

BY ALAN OSBORN and MARK ROWE
IN the space of some five years, biofuels have grown from almost total insignificance in the European Union (EU) to becoming the only practical alternative to petrol as a fuel for motor vehicles and much else – albeit still at a very low level.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SCANDALOUS discovery last year of 110 tons of rotting meat in Germany warehouses has prompted German researchers to develop a laser-based scanner system, which can check the freshness of meat and meat products from the slaughterhouse, to processing plants and retailers.…

BY MARK ROWE
CLIMATE change is now widely accepted as taking place across the planet, with huge implications for all industries, and the energy sector is no exception. Predictions from expert weather organisations make unsettling reading: the long-range forecast is for extremes of temperatures and more violent weather, more often.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH
GREECE will be one of the last of the last countries in the European Union

(EU) to possess any common stigma in cigarette smoking – if it ever will.

There is a disdain and defiance of those who, for whatever reasons, disapprove of the habit.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TRADE ministers have agreed to restart the Doha Development Round agricultural liberalisation talks, hoping sufficient progress can be made to persuade the US Congress to renew President Bush’s fast-track negotiating authorisation. This expires in June, and will need refreshing for the World Trade Organisations talks to have any hope of success.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament is about to set cigarette smuggling and counterfeiting at the heart of a vastly expanded European Union (EU) programme fighting financial crimes that harm the EU budget: Hercule II. Current plans will see this scheme spend Euro 98 million over seven years, compared with just Euro 11 million over three years for its predecessor Hercule I (French for Hercules).…

BY JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo
JUST as they are inventive in the world of business, the Japanese can be similarly clever when it comes to getting around inconvenient regulations on commerce, reports Julian Ryall, in Tokyo.

THEY may be better behaved than many of their counterparts in the rest of Asia, but many Japanese corporations have a very different attitude to breaking the rules than they did before the country’s recent “lost decade” of economic stagnation.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

MANY restaurant chains in New York City will from next summer not only have to eliminate trans-fats from their menus but also display the calorie content of their menu items so that customers can clearly see how fattening the food really is.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

MEAT-based, fast-food chains in New York City could face financial losses this summer because of a new law that will force restaurants to clearly display the calorie content of menu items.

The New York City Board of Health recently passed a by-law that requires restaurants that have already provided calorie counts of their food on websites or pamphlets or any other public form to display them clearly in the customers view when they order food.…