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BY MJ DESCHAMPS

WITH sales of biofuels still very much in their nascent stage and concerns rising about the environmental impact of biofuels growing, research and development into ‘second-generation’ biofuels is going ahead apace. And a key element of this work is lowering CO2 emissions from fuel by using waste alternative sources of material for conversion to biofuel.…

BY CAROL SOLOMON, KEITH NUTHALL

THE CHAIRMAN of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development’s (OECD) steel committee has warned that the steel industry has yet to secure a sustainable recovery from the recession. Risaburo Nezu told a meeting of the committee in Paris that steel demand globally reached an annual rate of 1.4 billion tonnes during the third quarter of 2010, only 6% higher than pre-recessional 2008.…

BY DANIEL PRUZIN

THE GLOBAL airline industry is spearheading a push for an overhaul of airport screening procedures which would use passenger profiling as a way to speed people through airport security checks, the head of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has said.…

BY KARRYN MILLER

DESPITE the global economic downturn of the last few years Vietnam’s paint industry has continued to experience growth. According to Vietnam’s General Statistics Office 234,000 tonnes of paint was produced in Vietnam between January 2010 and November 2010.…

BY ALYSHAH HASHAM

AS negotiators at the recent United Nations climate change conference in Cancun wrapped up their work, one problem concentrating minds enough to secure a partial deal was the spread of disease on the coat-tails of global warming. Infectious diseases are spreading to regions where they were previously absent, driven by warmer temperatures and changing rainfall patterns.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A REPORT from environmental groups including Transport & Environment and Friends of the Earth has argued unused land twice as large as Belgium could be cultivated for biofuel feedstock within the European Union (EU): ‘Anticipated Indirect Land Use Change Associated with Expanded Use of Biofuels in the EU’ argues this would generate 73 million tonnes additional CO2 emissions annually.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

IT maybe an impossible task: but the European Union (EU) is trying to assess the environmental impact of biofuels sufficiently accurately todraft regulations that promote green biofuels, rather than generate too many greenhouse gas emissions. The European Commission last month (December) announced that rules on laying down sustainability standards for the direct impact on greenhouse gas emissions from biofuel production were now in force.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

IT maybe an impossible task: but the European Union (EU) is trying to assess the environmental impact of biofuels sufficiently accurately to draft regulations that promote green biofuels, rather than generate too many greenhouse gas emissions. The European Commission last month (December) announced that rules on laying down sustainability standards for the direct impact on greenhouse gas emissions from biofuel production were now in force.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN ENVIRONMENTAL review of Japanese public policy by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) has said "more must be done to reduce reliance on fossil fuels and to achieve Japan’s climate targets…" The OECD noted Japan was far from its Kyoto Protocol goals, recommending a "mandatory cap-and-trade scheme in combination with a carbon tax."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, ALAN OSBORN, MJ DESCHAMPS, MARK ROWE, BRENDAN DE BEER and MAKKI MARSEILLES

IT has been a real slog – persuading the European Union’s (EU) 27 member states to implement detailed plans to manage their water resources on a river basin basis, rather than artificial political boundaries bearing little relation to hydrology.…