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BY KEITH NUTHALL
ONE of the world’s largest think tanks has predicted that the European Union’s (EU) Kyoto Protocol-linked greenhouse gas emissions trading scheme may not reduce emissions before 2012 because of coal’s increasingly competitive price. In a study carried out for power company clients, USA-based Global Insight predicts that more pollution will be emitted from 2005 to 2012 than in 2004, because coal will be cheaper than oil and gas, which emit less carbon dioxide.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN packaging sector and its customers are being consulted on a possible future harmonisation of European Union (EU) labelling laws for packaged goods. They have until March 15 to complete an online form provided by the European Commission, which is concerned about wide variations in labelling laws across the EU’s 25 member countries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FORGET about global warming, European scientists are currently more concerned about record low temperatures in the Arctic region, which they claim are thinning the northern hemisphere’s ozone layer to dangerously thin depths. Although Europe, Asia and north America have pumped most of the world’s ozone-depleting chemicals into the atmosphere, it is in the south where the notorious ozone hole has appeared, bringing skin cancers to Australasia and other regions.…

BY LIZ HALL
SPAIN’S paint and coating industry has every right to be self-congratulatory at present: the widespread investment and business improvements of recent years have paid off with the sector securing a well-earned place alongside its counterparts elsewhere in the developed world.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A DETAILED manual on disposal, transport and recycling of lead-acid batteries has been issued by the secretariat of the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal. The United Nations convention body has designed the publication as a comprehensive set of policies to reduce the overall impact of these batteries on the global environment.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A UNITED Nations meeting on small-island developing countries has concluded that they were already threatened with global-warming linked sea levels rises. Governments present also stressed the need to “intensify efforts to facilitate the full and effective participation” in World Trade Organisation decision-making.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SPORTS footwear industry, often criticised for breaking fundamental labour standards, has made greater progress in implementing worker-friendly codes of conduct in developing countries than the clothing and retail sectors, said the International Labour Organisation. * Implementing Codes of Conduct: How businesses manage social performance in global supply chains – http://www.ilo.org…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) has called for international cooperation on testing potential vaccines for HIV/AIDS because it is concerned that the current boom in research could exhaust available clinical trial capacity. WHO vaccine research director Marie-Paule Kieny (CORRECT SPELLING) has called for trials to be shared amongst a number of sites, each of whom were responsible for testing vaccines on a particular strain of the disease.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TRADE and agriculture ministers meeting in Kenya to energise the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Doha Development Round have made progress on moving towards a system where tariffs are always expressed as percentages of the price of products. This would simplify the existing set-up where some duties are fixed prices, or valued per measurement unit.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is to spend Euro 34.57 million on improvements to the European Union’s (EU) air traffic management systems, under the EU’s Trans-European Networks (TENs) scheme for transport. And global positioning service Galileo will get TENs money too: Euro 110 million will be lavished on this pet European project.…