Search Results for: Climate change

BY ALAN OSBORN

THE EUROPEAN Commission’s controversially delayed plan for conserving energy across a broad range of economic sectors throughout the 25 European Union (EU) member countries is to be announced next week, putting to rest fears that it could have been seriously weakened or even dropped entirely in the face of criticism from business.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels, and KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Commission president José Manuel Barroso has claimed the EIT could be an excellent vehicle for solving the problems posed by climate change. He told a press conference today in Brussels that this was the "most important global challenge of our times" and he thought — and hoped — the EIT would make a great contribution to solving it.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has made a second bid for new powers to amend European Union (EU) food legislation, without securing approval from the European Parliament or the EU Council of Ministers. Brussels earlier requested authority to change details of EU additives laws.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE DESIGNERS of new coal-fired power stations are being urged to plan plants that are able to bolt-on carbon capture systems when these become widely available. The call has been made by the European Union (EU) export panel, the Fossil Fuels Forum, which is keen to secure EU energy supplies for the future.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels, and KEITH NUTHALL

1. The Commission is a keen supporter of creating increased gas storage capacities. But who should pay for developing these facilities?

The Commission believes that investment in storage should be left to the market, and the costs allocated through market forces.…

BY MARK ROWE

DR JOHAN Ubbink, a senior research scientist at the Nestlé Research Centre for Food and Life Sciences in Lausanne, is responsible for background research work on food science that enables the company to develop innovative products. "Our key objectives are scientific advances in food and science nutrition which help to create products that give enjoyment and satisfaction to consumers and, increasingly, help them maintain a nutritionally balanced and healthy diet," he told just-food.com.…

BY ANDREW CAVE

AFTER 9/11, America positioned itself at the centre of the international crackdown on money laundering and terrorist financing, and its legal response has been well documented in the Money Laundering Bulletin. But what of its federal police and intelligence agencies?…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Beirut

CONTRARY to all assumptions, Lebanese universities have not experienced the student exodus they thought might happen following the month long war between Israel and Hizbullah, but the conflict did cost lives, financial losses and a sizeable reduction in the number of Western students.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa

THE CANADIAN Museum of Nature has reopened its key west wing having reached the halfway mark of an extensive and costly renovation project, scheduled to finish in 2010. The now completed wing underwent comprehensive renovations, including the building of new fossil and mammal galleries and a temporary exhibition space.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

WITH the cattle and sheep disease Bluetongue spreading north in Europe from its usual southern European base, the European Commission and other specialist agencies are investigating why the pathogen has marched northwards. The European Union’s (EU) reference laboratory, at Pirbright, Surrey, has confirmed this strain of Bluetongue hitting livestock in France, Belgium and the Netherlands, was previously unknown in Europe.…