Search Results for: Climate change

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.…

KEITH NUTHALL
A KYOTO Protocol secretariat report has warned the industrialised world’s greenhouse gas emissions will probably grow this decade, having stabilised during the 1990’s. Based on government projections, the paper claims combined 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 EUROPEAN Commission-funded research project has claimed that further reforms are required to the EU’s live exports legislation, concluding that stressful transport conditions are not only posing problems to animal welfare but also to meat quality and consumer perceptions of the industry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WIDESPREAD use of decentralised stand-alone fuel cell power and heat generating units could halve carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel electricity production, claims research from the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the Fuel Cell Europe group.…

BY PHILIP FINE

EMISSIONS trading programmes can achieve environmental goals faster and more economical than other alternative ecological policies, says report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Pew Center on Global Climate Change. The US group says that a well-designed and implemented cap-and-trade system ensures that environmental goals are met, regardless of where gases are emitted

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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Commission-funded research project has claimed that further reforms are required to the EU’s live exports legislation, concluding that stressful transport conditions are not only posing problems to animal welfare but also to meat quality and consumer perceptions of the industry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GLOOMY report from a consortium of high ranking European research teams has predicted that the world’s efforts to prevent greenhouse gas emissions are doomed to failure, even while the European Commission strives to force EU Member States to abide by their Kyoto Protocol commitments.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN ITALIAN conservation group has teamed up with the European Space Agency to collate satellite data of water pollution, in a bid to influence national government policies on land use and urbanisation. The Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) Italia is concerned about environmental damage being caused at overdeveloped “hot spots,” especially on the coast.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GLOOMY report from a consortium of high ranking European research teams has predicted that the world’s efforts to prevent greenhouse gas emissions are doomed to failure, even while the European Commission strives to force EU Member States to meet their Kyoto commitments.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL AND ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has beefed up the powers and duties of the European Regulators Group to be established following the passage into the law of the European Union’s new internal market package for the electricity industries.…