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BY ALAN OSBORN
A STUDY ordered for the European Commission – ‘The Financing of ATM To Achieve The Single European Sky’ – has caused something of a stir in aviation circles where a number of air traffic control professionals believe it to be founded on wrong assumptions and to give too rosy a picture of the situation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GLOBAL tea production in 2003 reached a record high of 3.15 million tonnes, 75,000 tonnes more than in 2002, and although traded tea fell by 2.6% to 1.4 million tonnes, prices remained stable, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).…

Keith Nuthall
AMERICAN newspapers are reporting that the United States has been rebuffed on a World Trade Organisation (WTO) case focusing on the Budweiser brand battle. Washington has been trying to get European Union (EU) geographical indication laws declared illegal under global intellectual property rules because they protected the use of the brand by Czech brewer Budejovický Budvar.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AS a truly global criminal problem, it is only right that fighting money laundering is a key priority of the United Nations (UN). Its general assembly and key committees have made declarations and approved conventions on the subject, and its specialist agencies have also devoted time, money, specialist staff and energy to fighting the problem.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SPECIAL sub-committee has been created at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) tasked with promoting liberalisation in the global cotton sector in the ongoing Doha Development Round. The task force was created on Friday (Nov 19) to work on “all trade-distorting policies affecting the sector”, in all three key areas of the Doha agriculture talks: market access, domestic support, and export competition.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) could extend its current protection for the geographic names of traditional EU products such as Champagne and Scotch whisky to quality drinks made outside Europe. European Commission officials said they would be prepared to “clarify” EU legislation this way after a draft World Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes ruling on the issue was leaked by American diplomats.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
IS there a role for the insurance companies of rich countries to play in developing “micro finance” in the world’s very poorest regions? The question has become relevant following the launch earlier this month (November) of the International year of Microcredit 2005 by the UN’s Agricultural Fund for Development (IFAD).…

Keith Nuthall
INTERNATIONAL tourist travel has rebounded strongly this year from its September 11-attacks induced torpor, the World Tourism Organisation has claimed. Between January and August 2004, the number of international tourist arrivals grew 12% compared to the same months in 2003, said the UN agency.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank has staged its first workshop explaining its Voluntary Standard for the Reduction of Global Venting and Flaring of Associated Gas. The meeting was held in Nigeria, which flares more gas than other countries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN ARCTIC Climate Impact Assessment by scientists from Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russian, Sweden, and the USA has warned global warming-generated melts of ice and permafrost could damage oil and gas pipelines. Their stability would be threatened by thaws turning tundra into plains of mud.…