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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE NUMBER of people worldwide at risk from devastating floods will double from one billion today to two billion by 2050 without greater efforts to prevention and predict such disasters, United Nations University (UNU) specialists have claimed. In a first detailed policy statement from a new UNU environment and human security institute in Bonn, Germany, they point out floods currently annually inflict “up to 25,000 annual deaths, extensive homelessness, disaster-induced disease, crop and livestock damage and other serious harm” on over 520 million people.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THERE may be lies, damned lies and statistics, but no spin can conceal that a large proportion of international shipping and ports will not have complied with the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) security code by July 1, its implementation deadline.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GLOBAL food standards body Codex Alimentarius has tabled risk assessment standards for all foods. It has also drawn up new dairy standards for consultation, including guidelines for evaporated skimmed milk-vegetable fat blends, fermented milks and minimum protein content in cheese.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GLOBAL Gas Venting and Flaring Reduction Voluntary Standard has been unveiled by the Global Gas Flaring Reduction Public-Private Partnership (GGFR), which includes oil-producing countries, oil companies and World Bank. It aims at stimulating oil industry associated gas production for international and domestic sale, cutting the 100 billion cubic metres vented and incinerated annually.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
The European Commissioner for transport and energy, Loyola de Palacio, has been given a special “Climate Killer Award” by a coalition of environmental NGOs including Friends of the Earth and the Climate Action Network. Mrs de Palacio was given the award, said the group, “in recognition of her repeated efforts to destabilise EU support for the Kyoto Protocol and related policies”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WORRIED about the onset of an Ice Age in one week, following the switching-off of the North Atlantic Current, a la recent Hollywood blockbuster the Day After Tomorrow? Well kick back, and don’t worry. It’s not going to happen, says the European Environment Agency (EEA).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
HAULAGE companies preparing to invest in expensive global positioning navigational equipment have been assured that systems working with the European Union’s (EU) GALILEO network from 2008, will work with signals from the USA’s GPS. The text of a US-EU deal insists that the systems “will be fully compatible and interoperable”, making their joint use and the “manufacturing of equipment much easier and cheaper.”*…

BY MARK ROWE
ALCOHOL products are one of the major strengths that the new members of the recently enlarged European Union (EU) bring to its economic table. Of the 10 newcomers, six are wine-producing countries: Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Malta, Slovakia and Slovenia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
INFLATION adjusted prices for agricultural products are likely to decline over the longer term said the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), with “global production of cereals, meats, cheese, sugar and vegetable oils is set to outpace consumption over the next ten years.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD’S food standards body, the Codex Alimentarius, has approved an international code of practice on ‘good animal feeding’, establishing a global feed safety system for livestock. It advises on maintaining animal health and reducing environmental problems associated with particular feeds, (such as antibiotics) “in order to minimise risks to the health of consumers.”…