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A GLOBAL market-based system controlling civil aviation greenhouse gas emissions will be developed by 2016, the ruling assembly of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has agreed. Member states, meeting in Montréal, Canada, said the new system should be up and running by 2020.…

COAL might be regarded as the oldest energy source going, but it is still currently the world’s largest long-term source of electricity. It fuels around 40% of global electricity production, according to the UK-based World Energy Council, a United Nations (UN) accredited body representing some 3,000 private and public-sector member organisations across 90 nations.…

China has many thousands of textile printing companies. So the ability to stand out from the crowd and attract high-end clients, who are probably innovative and environmentally conscious, has been a focus for the Changzhou-based Dongheng Group. 

It has found the answer in digital printing.…

DIGITAL innovation and exports dominated discussion at the 31st edition of Liber 2013, Spain’s leading book fair, which ended on Sunday (October 6) in Madrid after drawing 10,000 visitors, compared with 6,000 last year in Barcelona.

And while 450 exhibitors and 300-plus international buyers almost universally framed their comments in terms of recession, robust overseas sales and advances in e-publishing made for a slightly more positive mood than last year.…

The Italian government has told Steel First that it has stalled the formal proposal of a decree which would allow the resumption of operations at iron and steel companies owned by Italian holding company Riva Steel.

These remain suspended while Italy’s ministry of economic development has been drafting a law which would normalise the management of Riva’s seven plants, which employ some 1,400 workers.…

EVEN if the UK department for environment, food and rural affairs (DEFRA) has yet to decide whether managing water supplies on a catchment area basis is a positive move overall, it is happy that the past two years’ pilot projects have created some tangible benefits.…

THE DEMAND for lithium will increase dramatically in Europe over the next five years, according to the vice-president of the Interparliamentary Raw Minerals Group at the European Parliament. Also a leading liberal democrat MEP, Vladko Panayotov, of Bulgaria, was speaking during a European Parliament meeting on critical raw minerals organised yesterday (Tuesday) by the Beryllium Science and Technology Association (BeST).…

TWO of the world’s largest fertilizer suppliers will face investment cuts after Sweden’s four largest national pension funds decided to sell their holdings over purchases of phosphate rock in the disputed Western Sahara region.

The decision to sell stock in Canada-based PotashCorp and Australia-based mining company Incitec Pivot came on the recommendation of the funds’ joint Ethical Council, which keeps tabs on allegations of environmental and human rights violations among the portfolios of the A1, A2, A3 and A4 funds.…

The European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) is planning to lend USD26 million to a Ukrainian manufacturer of graphite electrodes for electric steel and electric-arc furnaces – Ukrgrafit. A memorandum from the bank said that the loan would fund reconstructing and modernising its manufacturing facilities and introducing energy efficient technologies.…

Operations at iron and steel companies owned by Italian holding company Riva Steel are set to resume this Monday (Sept 30), following an accord reached late on Friday (Sept 27) in Rome between Italian government officials, Riva Steel and bank representatives.…