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BY KEITH NUTHALL

A SHIFT in European Union (EU) energy policy should become apparent from February 1, when Germany’s Günther Oettinger should become EU energy Commissioner. Replacing Latvia’s Andris Piebalgs for the next five years, the appointment of a German to this increasingly powerful position has been widely touted as shifting EU energy relations towards closer links with Russia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, EMMA JACKSON and ERIC LYMAN

THE COPENHAGEN climate change conference ended on December 18 with an accord where key world economies promised to make binding agreements to cut carbon emissions. But detail on exactly how much will be settled at a later date, meaning its long term effects on the oil and gas industry are unclear.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE PLANNED shape of a new European Commission for the next five years has been unveiled, and it includes recreating a new single directorate general (DG) for energy. Since 2000, the Commission has operated a joint directorate general for energy and transport, but with the growing importance of the energy brief to the European Union (EU), energy policy will receive a new separate directorate general.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

SIGNIFICANT environmental improvements in Russia and Nigeria have been largely responsible for cutting global gas flaring over the past three years by 22 billion cubic metres (bcm), despite a 5% rise in crude oil production. The World Bank-led Global Gas Flaring Reduction partnership (GGFR) says flaring peaked at 162 bcm in 2005 and declined to 140 bcm in 2008.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A YEAR of struggle would be the best way to sum up 2009 as far as the global clothing and textile industry is concerned. The depth and severity of the worldwide recession left many clothing and textile companies reeling, even impacting upon China, which had previously been dominating global markets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A REVISED European Commission nanotechnology action plan is insisting commercial research into using nanoparticles in coatings and other consumer products should be staged alongside studies into the potential environmental health impacts of resulting innovations. That way, suitable controls can be introduced while new nanotechnology applications are being developed.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON GAVIN BLAIR ANCA GURZU and KEITH NUTHALL

AS the Copenhagen conference charged with forging a new international climate change treaty gets under way this month, the auto industry worldwide will be looking closely at how the deliberations will affect its business.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A REVISED European Commission nanotechnology action plan is insisting commercial research into nanoparticles be staged in parallel with studies into the potential environmental health impacts of resulting innovations. That way, suitable controls can be introduced while new nanotechnology applications are being developed.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

MEASURED by what’s been happening in the European cigarette market over the past 10 to 15 years, 2008 – and what we’ve seen of 2009 so far – hasn’t been that bad. It may not have been good, exactly, but considering the global recession few people will have been looking for uplift.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE DYING and textile finishing industry is being offered a data resource by the European Commission and European Environmental Agency through a new pollution register. It shows in 2007, (the latest figures available), the European textiles pre-treatment and dyeing industry released 76.7 tonnes of nitrogen into water and 6,460 tonnes of nitrous oxide into the air, for instance.…