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BY DAVID HAWORTH and KEITH NUTHALL

IT is an important symbol of the changing focus of the European Union (EU) that the EU’s energy lobby is today regarded as an equal, if not more important than, the once feared agriculture lobby in Brussels.…

BY WILL ROBERTSON, MARK ROWE and KEITH NUTHALL

THE ROBUST nature of the southeast Asian palm oil industry has been illustrated by the way the market has remained strong despite both the global recession and the arrival of weather phenomenon El Nino this year and its attendant drought conditions.…

BY LEAH GERMAIN

A BREAKTHROUGH energy project from EU research programme EUREKA is turning spent grain from beer production into renewable brewery-operating power. By harnessing its latest energy, German and Slovakian developers have created technology that can significantly reduce energy costs for brewers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CHEMICAL companies including paint and coating businesses have participated in the first Helsinki Chemicals Forum, an annual meeting of chemical firms, researchers, regulators and pressure groups. Organised by the Chemicals Forum Association, the European Commission and the European Chemical Agency, it will allow businesses to comment on REACH and develop strategies on sustainability and environmental practice.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

THE POTENTIALLY tough issue of regulations on indoor air pollution and all the potential problems this could cause the paint and coatings industry just refuses to go away in Europe. This is despite the fact that 10 months after the groundbreaking EnVIE conference on indoor air quality, held in Brussels last September, there is still no sign of any new Green Paper that might mean a tough new regime for the paint industry.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

INDIAN environmentalists and farmers’ groups are warning major drinks companies that by transforming the country’s horticulture patterns and changing its existing fruit supply chain they are playing with fire.

New Delhi-based environmental activist Vandana Shiva is far from unusual in arguing swift social and economic change caused by large scale earmarking of primary production could cause unrest.…

BY MARK GODFREY

COMMUNIST Party cadres from around China are being bussed out to Asuwei landfill in Beijing’s Changping suburb to view a showcase for how China wants to manage waste in the future. As China urbanises, its solid waste output has been climbing by 9% a year, said Rasmus Reinvag, co-author of a recent China environmental sector report by the WWF conservation group and Norwegian-government owned development group Innovation Norway.…

BY MARK GODFREY

ONE might wonder why Chinese car makers would want to go abroad: China’s auto sales are up by as much as 40% in the first half of 2009 according to the National Bureau of Statistics here. Yet Chinese car firms have been gunning hard for sales in the UK and western Europe, both deemed as vital to global expansion plans developed by automakers BYD and Chery, explained Yale Zhang, a Beijing-based auto analyst at CLSA, an investment bank.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A COMPREHENSIVE report from a European Union (EU) think-tank has indicated that Britain’s new Pounds 2,000 scrappage scheme may not work, because of high levels of UK personal indebtedness.

The paper ‘Recent restructuring trends and policies in the automotive sector’ by the Dublin-based European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions has shown how Germany’s scrappage scheme has been markedly successful – in contrast to those in other EU member states, such as France and Italy.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, in London; RUSSELL BERMAN, in Washington DC; JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo; RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi; BY WANG FANGQING, in Shanghai; EMMA JACKSON, in Ottawa; KARRYN MILLER; and KEITH NUTHALL

THE AUTOMOBILE sector maybe one of the most globally integrated manufacturing industries on the planet, but national governments (or continental bodies in Europe) still hold sway regarding regulation.…