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BY ALAN OSBORN

ONLY comparatively recently have the world’s anti money laundering agencies come to grips with alternative remittance systems (ARS) and even today the scale of the systems and the degree of infiltration by criminals is still not fully known.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE MULTILATERAL Investment Guarantee Agency, or MIGA, is the international organisation companies turn to when they want to invest in a jurisdiction where their assets might not be that safe. Mining companies have long used MIGA to cover risks that are too tasty for the private insurance industry, and the agency has issued 58 guarantees for the sector since it was formed in 1988.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice’s (ECJ) Court of First Instance has ruled that the European Commission had no right to reject earlier this year the UK’s increase of carbon dioxide pollution allowances under the European Union emissions trading system earlier this year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AS EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers this month (November) resume their discussions on the medium-term (2007-13) budget for EU institutions, they have a lot of balls to juggle, including farm subsidies, the infamous British rebate, overall economic competitiveness and future EU research spending.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNLIKELY prospect of China – one of the world’s least environment-friendly countries – running a green Olympics has come closer to reality through an agreement with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). It has struck a deal with the Beijing Organising Committee for the (2008) summer games (BOCOG), involving the UN agency boosting public awareness of air, water and noise pollution plans focusing on transport, landscaping and waste disposal.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN ITALIAN cruise-liner will become an important air pollution monitoring station helping European scientists assess the impact of industrial and transport emissions on climate change. The European Commission and the Costa Crociere line have installed an automatic air pollution monitoring station on its Costa Fortuna ship.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE LAWRENCE Livermore National Laboratory, California, USA, has warned global warming could be much higher than expected, releasing new models suggesting average temperatures worldwide could rise by 7.8°C by 2300 if fossil fuel consumption continues unchecked. Polar ice caps would melt and sea levels rise seven meters, it claimed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GREECE has warned of a potential EU olive oil glut, calling on the European Commission to postpone a planned low or zero duty import quota. It, plus Italy, Spain, Cyprus and Slovenia warned the EU Council of Ministers of strong 2005 European production, because of excellent climate conditions.…

KEITH NUTHALL
GERMANY – which until recently had a Green-Socialist government – is home to five of the 10 dirtiest electricity plants in the European Union (EU), a report from conservation group WWF claims. Its assessment of carbon-dioxide emissions from power stations found Germany’s lignite Frimmersdorf RWE plant second most polluting, behind Greece’s lignite plant at Agios Dimitrios.…

BY MARK ROWE
IN times of conflict, cultural property, such as archaeological sites, works of art, museums and monuments, can also suffer grievously at the hands of opposing military and guerrilla forces. In recognition of this, such objects are accorded protection by the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict.…