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OECD ENVIRONMENTAL REPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL institution best known for promoting free market solutions for the world’s economic ills has issued a surprising call for governments to promote environmental good practice by relying more on compulsory regulation and less on voluntary guidance.…
G8 TANKER PLAN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
HEADS of government at the recent G8 summit in France have committed their countries to reducing the environmental threat posed by oil tankers. A communiqué committed their governments to accelerate the introduction of a safety code for flag states, establish mandatory pilotage in narrow, restricted or congested waters, improve inspections and other measures.…
INDIA - IFC LOAN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation of the World Bank is lending US$17.5 million in INDRupees to Indian textile company Alok Industries Ltd, allowing the Mumbai (Bombay)-based company to expand and modernise its facilities and meet growing demand from domestic and international customers.…
RUSSIA - BARENTS SEA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRANCE is giving Euro 40 million to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to help it fund Russia’s cleansing of the radioactive contamination in the Barents Sea caused by its aging decommissioned nuclear fleet. The money will be channelled through the nuclear-related budgets of the EBRD-managed Northern Dimension Environmental Partnership (NDEP) Support Fund.…
OIL SLICK - ESA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
ENVIRONMENTAL imaging from the European Space Agency’s ERS-2 satellite helped Swedish, German and Danish oil containment ships scoop up the bulk of an oil slick released from a sunken Chinese freighter that threatened the southern coast of Sweden this month.(June)…
THAILAND TAXIS
BY MARK ROWE
THAILAND is promoting the use of natural gas-powered taxis to improve its environmental record. Purchasers will be offered cheap loans and technical and logistical support for using clean-burning natural gas.…
SALT WATER POLLUTION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
ENVIRONMENTAL health authorities need to guard against the leaching of marine pollution through porous aquifers into freshwater groundwater sources, a European Union funded research project has warned. The Euro 2.4 million SALTRANS study has dismissed earlier assumptions that toxic organic pollutants are not sufficiently soluble to flow into groundwater reserves.…
KYOTO REPORT
KEITH NUTHALL
A KYOTO Protocol secretariat report has warned the industrialised world’s greenhouse gas emissions will probably grow this decade, having stabilised during the 1990’s. Based on government projections, the paper claims combined emissions of Europe, Japan, the US and other highly industrialised countries could grow by eight per cent from 2000 to 2010, (17 per cent over 1990 levels), despite measures already in place to limit them.…
CAP REFORM
BY ALAN OSBORN
EUROPEAN Union (EU) beef producers will be able to retain most of their existing production-linked subsidies in spite of a major reform of the Common Agricultural Policy agreed by farm ministers of the 15 member countries early today (Thursday).…
INTEGRATED POLLUTION CONTROL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
SIGNIFICANT problems have been detected by a European Commission study into the implementation of the European Union’s integrated pollution prevention and control directive in seven EU Member States, with Britain being the only country so far found complying.…