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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE CZECH presidency of the European Union (EU) has revealed a plan to offer subsidies to automobile consumers who want to replace their old models and buy new cars. It is the latest strand to emerge of the EU’s strategy to help the European auto industry through its current tough trading conditions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

RENAULT’S ambitious plans to develop and roll out electric vehicles worldwide are likely to be bankrolled by a Euro 400 million loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB). The money, said a bank memorandum, would fund around 40% of current Euro 1 billion Renault spending plans on develop electric vehicles and improving the environmental performance of conventional Renault vehicles.…

BY MARK ROWE

THE WORLD’S first internationally certified eco-labelled fuel is now available on the international commercial market. The fuel, designated by the Nordic Council of Ministers, is a mixture of fossil natural methane and biogas from digestion plants, produced by the Swedish company FordonsGas Sverige.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi; and KEITH NUTHALL

AN INTERNATIONAL conference took place this month in Hong Kong (May 11-15) and adopted a new International Maritime Organisation (IMO) convention on globally applicable ship recycling regulations for international shipping, including oil and gas tankers.…

BY PACIFICA GODDARD, in Caracas; MARVIN HOKSTAM, in Paramaribo, JAMES FULLER, in Port of Spain

IT may seem like a good thing for fuel retailers to be based in country that is sitting on a bounty of fuel reserves. But that is not necessarily the case, as many Latin American and Caribbean retailers can testify.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

WHILE every nurse knows promoting healthy behaviour by pregnant mothers can help prevent illness in babies, new research suggests that nurses may be able to dispense crucial advice before a baby is even conceived. It could be as effective as telling new about the benefits of cutting out alcohol, tobacco and caffeine and the importance of eating healthily during pregnancy – and a lot simpler.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

IN the airport industry, starting from scratch is sometimes the best solution. Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad is a case in point. It displays the range of objectives that can be achieved in terms of efficiency and scope in a greenfield project over and above expanding an existing airport.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE FIRST major effort to limit the overexploitation of western and central Pacific yellowfin and bigeye tuna stocks has been made. The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) has approved a 30% reduction over three years of bigeye tuna catches and also a two month ban on floating platforms used to attract both species, which will be extended to three months in 2010.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A DETAILED report from the European Environment Agency (EEA), which highlights signals of environmental problems within Europe, says England and Wales can be labelled "water stressed", along with only eight other European countries. They are Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Germany, Italy, Macedonia, Malta and Spain.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EURO 100,000 European food Safety Authority (EFSA) grant has been awarded to a consortium of European Union (EU) science consortia to investigate the impact of the so-called bee ‘colony collapse disorder’ on honey production.

Since 2003, there have been reports of serious losses of bees from beehives in Europe, with the cause being unknown, although possible factors include starvation, viruses, mites, pesticide exposure and climate change.…