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BY ALAN OSBORN

AFTER many years of often ill-tempered negotiation and much heated lobbying in the European Parliament, the inclusion of the aviation industry in the European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) is now a done thing. The enabling directive 2008/101/EC was agreed last year and published in the EU’s Official Journal on January 13 of this year.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

THE INDIAN paint and coating industry is currently passing through a significant transitional phase – being forced to shift its production from solvent-based to water-based products. The high crude oil prices in 2008 so increased the cost of raw materials that despite the fall in prices from last summer, many paint manufacturers have had little option but to move away from oil-based coatings.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

WHILE the European Union (EU) has not exactly fallen out of love with biofuels, it has to be said that the relationship has become more complicated since the EU started worrying about the environmental problems associated with the sector.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Parliament today (March 25) overwhelmingly passed amendments to proposed reforms to the European Union’s (EU) novel food regulation, forcing food manufacturers to state explicitly if their products contained nanoparticles.

In a sign of rising environmental health concerns about nanotechnology, MEPs also voted for a rule saying "nanotechnology processes…will need specific risk assessment methods".…

BY ANDREW CAVE

GREEN is the colour for many future oil and gas industry jobs, according to a recent study predicting that environment-friendly energy will not only tackle the world’s energy crisis but also create millions of new jobs worldwide.

Green Jobs, published by the Worldwatch Institute, a Washington DC-based research organisation, says the renewable sector and its supplier industries already employ at least 2.3 million people worldwide, including about 300,000 workers in the wind power industry, 170,000 in solar photovoltaics and 600,000 in the solar thermal industry alone.…

BY PHILIPPA JONES

THE NUMBER of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in the skies above Europe is increasing rapidly, but safety concerns mean they normally remain segregated from other airspace users, inhibiting their employment in a wide range of activities. Eurocontrol, the European organisation for the safety of air navigation, has therefore launched a major project of work intended to ensure the safe and efficient integration of UAS into the pan-European Air Traffic Management Network (ATM).…

BY MARK ROWE

AS book reading online enters the mainstream, one question that has plagued academic and cultural journals for years has re-emerged: digital obsolescence. Publishers are concerned about keeping pace with technological advances and preserving access to digital material.

No sooner, and at significant expense, is literature scanned and digitally secured in a given format, than it risks being overtaken by the latest storage versions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

HEALTH concerns have been raised by a European Union (EU) scientific committee on emerging and newly identified health risks about the use of nanotechnology in cleaning and other services. The committee has in the past identified fears about a lack of environmental health knowledge regarding nanoparticles, but in a new report, it has highlighted actual health concerns.…

BY PHILIPPA JONES

BUILDINGS account globally for 8% of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, or 20% if upstream emissions associated with electricity and heat are included, according to the climate change report written by UK government adviser and economist Nicholas Stern. The European Union (EU), national governments, and local authorities have all adopted targets aimed at incorporating renewables into the planning process and reducing these figures.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) scientific committee on consumer products has raised concerns that one of the two key types of hair dye could promote cancer. In a report it highlights studies indicating "excess risks for chronic lymphoid leukaemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma and acute leukaemia for users of [oxidative] hair dyes", the other category are ‘progressive’ hair dyes.…