Search Results for: Climate change

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is offering a research contract for publishing experts to analyse the economic and technical evolution of Europe’s scientific publications. The study would also focus on the implications of recent changes for publishing houses, retailers and consumers.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE WORLD’S 20 largest corporations, including Exxon Mobil, BP and Chevron Texaco, have failed to prepare for the economic fall-out of climate change, says Washington DC’s Investor Responsibility Research Center. A study says none of the companies have estimated their potential financial losses from global warming.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BANNING of the fluorinated gas SF6 (sulphur hexafluoride) as a protective gas in magnesium casting, (barring smaller die casters), has been proposed in a European Commission-ordered consultants report on fighting climate change. Ecofys and Öko-Recherche had been told to draw up practical recommendations on better implementing the European Climate Change Programme.…

BY PHILIP FINE

IN order to persuade the US government to change its position on Chinese exports, six groups have planned an "aggressive" joint lobbying campaign in Washington. The American Textile Manufacturers Institute, the National Cotton Council, the National Textile Association, the American Fiber Manufacturers Association, the American Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition and the American Yarn Spinners Association claim that China’s textile and apparel exports to the United States have surged 140 per cent in one year, causing their industries to close more than fifty plants, destroying more than 40,000 American jobs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A WORLD Trade Organisation disputes settlement panel has dismissed claims made by India that American textile rules of origin regulations are illegal under international law. New Delhi had claimed that changes to the USA’s 1996 Uruguay Round Agreements Act broke commitments within the WTO Rules of Origin Agreement that member countries do not discriminate in favour of one trading partner.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
NOBODY likes nuclear waste but nobody has yet thought up a universally-acceptable way of disposing of it. This is as true in Europe as anywhere else. It may be fair to say, however, that some European countries have gone further than the rest of the world in drawing conclusions about the future of nuclear energy as a result of the problems caused by radioactive waste.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AGRICULTURAL economists may disagree, but predicting trends in world food markets is not necessarily rocket science. A dose of healthy common sense can be as good a guide for the future demand for commodities as any amount of slide rules and complex economic equations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has signed an international charter on the capture and storage deep underground of carbon dioxide, also involving Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Italy, India, Japan, Mexico, Norway, China, Russia, Britain and the US. This Sequestration Leadership Forum is developing schemes to capturing CO2 at source and storing it for thousands of years deep underground, probably in depleted oil and gas wells, with the aim of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A KYOTO Protocol secretariat report has warned that the industrialised world’s greenhouse gas emissions will probably grow this decade, having stabilised during the 1990’s. Based on national government projections, the paper claims combined global warming emissions of Europe, Japan, the US and other highly industrialised countries could grow by eight per cent from 2000 to 2010, (17 per cent over 1990 levels), despite measures already in place to limit them.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A KYOTO Protocol secretariat report has warned that the industrialised world’s greenhouse gas emissions will probably grow this decade, having stabilised during the 1990’s. Based on national government projections, the paper claims combined global warming emissions of Europe, Japan, the US and other highly industrialised countries could grow by eight per cent from 2000 to 2010, (17 per cent over 1990 levels), despite measures already in place to limit them.…