Search Results for: Global Warming⊂mit=Search

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TECHNOLOGY enabling local authorities to issue targeted alerts about impending air pollution or other environmental problems will be presented to a global telecommunications summit this November. The UN meeting in Tunisia will learn of the European Union (EU)-funded Air Pollution Network for Early warning and on-line information Exchange (APNEE) project, which could also, its developers say, warn citizens about oncoming disasters, such as storms and tidal waves.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A STRATEGIC plan has been developed for developing an effective HIV vaccine by the Global HIV/AIDS Vaccine Enterprise, whose membership includes the European Commission plus 140 agencies and research units from 17 European and developing countries. The plan highlights the main roadblocks to developing a vaccine and suggests how to tackle them.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has lifted 14% retaliatory duties on some US perfume and soap exports after Congress abolished foreign sales corporations giving illegal tax breaks to US exporters. The EU Council of Ministers has suspended these duties until next January, while a World Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes panel examines whether successor legislation, the American Jobs Creation Act, complies with global trade rules.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A WORLD sugar market forecast for 2005 from the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) indicates world sugar consumption (144.8 million tonnes) will surpass global production (831,000 tonnes) for the second consecutive year, stabilising prices.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
INTERNATIONAL Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director general Mohamed ElBaradei has called on governments to make advance preparations for May’s 2005 Review Conference of the parties to the UN Nuclear Weapons Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Listing a series of “fixes” to tighten global controls, ElBaradei said some of these “can be made in May, but only if governments are ready to act.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has suspended 14% retaliatory duties on American raw hides, skin and finished leather exports, as well as leather finished goods after Congress abolished foreign sales corporations giving illegal tax breaks to US exporters. The EU Council of Ministers has suspended these duties until next January, while a World Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes panel examines whether successor legislation, the American Jobs Creation Act, complies with global trade rules.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

ONLY comparatively recently have the world’s anti money laundering agencies come to grips with alternative remittance systems (ARS) and even today the scale of the systems and the degree of infiltration by criminals is still not fully known.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INSURANCE industry will wait attentively for the responses due in May to formal requests made this week by the European Commission for its World Trade Organisation (WTO) partners to liberalise their financial sectors.

These notes were made within the WTO’s Doha Development Round’s talks on services, which are in technical terms more advanced than the other portions of the negotiations.…

BY MARK ROWE AND PAUL COCHRANE

INTRODUCTION

JUST as chocolate sells well in cold countries, so do soft drinks flourish in hot countries, which would suggest that North Africa and the Levant presents an inviting face to the international drinks market.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE INTERNATIONAL Energy Agency (IEA) has warned that demand for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles may not reach the critical mass required for a dramatic switch-over to the technology. In such an instance, the Paris-based think tank predicts that other low carbon technologies such as biofuels might gain ground over traditional petrol and diesel automobiles.…