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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE ENERGY directorate general of the European Commission has insisted that formal targets to increase the amount of biofuels produced and consumed in the European Union (EU) will be released this week (Jan 23), despite concerns aired by the EU environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

THE NEXT twelve months – say to Easter 2009 – could prove of fundamental significance for the development of European Union (EU) energy policy on several fronts. In January this year, the European Commission published its long-awaited proposals on renewable energies and CO2 saving, and history may well judge this to be the moment when the EU turned decisively green.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed that public authorities be forced to consider the environmental performance of vehicles they want to buy or lease when offering transport procurement contracts out to tender. At present, national, regional and local governments can ignore the comparative performance regarding vehicle emissions of various models or transport services on offer, focusing on cost and efficiency.…

BY MARK ROWE

RUSSIA’S booming economy means that those old images of grey queues for low-grade fuel to run Moskvich and other Soviet era cars are long gone. Instead, the country’s fuel retail sector has an incentive for dramatically overhauling the present state of affairs, which predominantly involves poorly established, locally run chains and Western chains fighting – sometimes unsuccessfully – for market share.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed a detailed set of mandatory guidelines for the rolling out of carbon capture and storage (CCS) systems, that it hopes will promote their use, cleansing solid fuels of greenhouse gas emission problems. This legislation has been under discussion for more than a year and ultimately, the Commission decided not to make CCS mandatory, but to promote it through the European Union’s (EU) emissions trading system.…

BY MARK GODFREY

A GLANCE at the bustling Kwun Tong Wholesale Fish Market suggests Hong Kong’s live seafood market is thriving. Every morning with typical Hong Kong efficiency fish are hauled from holding tanks onto queuing trucks fitted with wooden boxes and air pumps.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN ORGANISATION for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) report on Denmark’s environmental policy has concluded green concerns need to be better integrated into the country’s transport policies. The OECD called for a Danish sustainable transport plan, an environmental review of transport infrastructure plans, reformed transport taxes and government consideration of road pricing.…

BY CHRIS JONES, in Paris

EUROPEAN vehicle rental companies are increasingly promoting themselves as the answer to the problem of tackling CO2 emissions, offering advice on eco-driving techniques to their customers and offering a wide range of ‘green’ vehicles with low emissions.…

BY MARK ROWE

VIETNAM is a country enjoying an extraordinary boom. Cities teem with cars and a seemingly infinite number of motorcycles, whilst new offices and advertising hoardings are erected daily, symbolising a new era for the country and good news for the paint industry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

SPACE maybe called the final frontier on TV, but for mining industry and environmentalists, bragging rights must surely go to the ocean deeps – the most inaccessible and unexplored regions on Earth. Speculation has been continuing for decades about the potential mineral riches on ocean floors, however there have always been four obvious problems about extracting them: noone really knows what is down there; the expense of prospecting for such minerals could be prohibitive; there is yet no comprehensive internationally agreed legal regime covering potential work in international waters; and there are risks it could cause irreparable damage to ecosystems that are barely understood.…