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BY KEITH NUTHALL
WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) director-general Dr Supachai Panitchpakdi has launched talks with member countries on maybe staging an emergency meeting of the WTO council for trade in goods on the oncoming abolition of textiles and clothing quotas. He has been consulting on this idea, proposed by Mauritius, Bangladesh and Nepal, which want the council to examine the costs of adjusting to a global quota-free regime from January, under the WTO’s agreement on textiles and clothing.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Environment Agency (EEA) says the old 15 member EU’s greenhouse gas emissions fell by 0.5% from 2001-2, following increases in the previous two years. Sadly, proactive anti-global warming measures were not top of the agency’s reasons for the cut.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GROUND-LEVEL checks on the thickness of polar ice caps are being staged by the European Space Agency (ESA) to assess environmental monitoring data which will culled its oncoming Cryosat satellite mission. ESA has sent scientists to ice sheets in the north of Canada, Greenland and Norway.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has – for a change – some good news to crow about regarding greenhouse gases, with the European Environment Agency (EEA) saying the old 15 member EU’s emissions fell by 0.5% from 2001-2, following increases in the previous two years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
UNIFORM global rules on the market approval of internal combustion engines in non-road mobile machinery have been approved regarding the measurement of the net power. The standard – agreed by the United Nations’ World Forum for Harmonisation of Vehicle Regulations – is expected to encourage manufacturers to use net rather than gross power as a yardstick.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
WE don’t need reminding that industry is generally harmful to the environment but less understood is the potentially quite damaging ecological effect of rising agricultural production throughout the world. This theme came through pretty loud and clear at the Consumers, Farmers and Food conference held at the Royal Institute of International Affairs last week (5-6/July), in London.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SCIENTISTS are studying European Space Agency (ESA) satellite data proving that huge waves of 25 metres height or more are an ever-present hazard to shipping on the high seas. Researchers in the international MaxWave project are examining images culled over three weeks of more than 10 such monster waves.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NEW global technical standards have been agreed advising manufacturers how to design vehicles so that plastics used in their interior construction are less prone to catch fire. They were agreed by the World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations, part of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NEW global technical standards have been agreed advising manufacturers how to design vehicles so that plastics used in their interior construction are less prone to catch fire. They were agreed by the World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations, part of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) has released a technical standard advising on detecting illicit movements of radioactive materials at frontiers and industry control points. ISO said it wanted to provide a common technical base for monitoring, helping communication between regulatory authorities.…