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KEITH NUTHALL
DESPITE the gloom over the European Union’s (EU) global warming emission performance, its 15 member countries have become steadily more energy efficient over the past 10 years, according to figures from Eurostat, the EU’s statistical office. It based its conclusions on energy intensity ratios, measuring how much energy produces a unit of economic output.…

BY MARK ROWE
BUMI Resources, Indonesia’s largest coal producer, has set a target of increasing coal output by 40 per cent this year. In a move that the company says is aimed to capitalise on an increase in global coal prices that may rise by as much as 20 per cent, Bumi says it plans to produce around 43 million tons, up from 30.6 million last year.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE IMPACT of mad-cow disease in the United States the will cause a 10 per cent decline in American farm income in 2004, according to recent economic analysis.

Estimates from Global Insight predict that farm income will be about $5.5 billion lower in 2004 than what it would have been in the absence of BSE.…

BY KENCHO WANGDI
EVEN as the World Health Organisation (WHO) and some 170 countries work towards implementing a tobacco control convention, Bhutan, the remote and tiny Himalayan kingdom, has taken a step further by banning tobacco sale at all its duty-free outlets.…

BY RICHARD HURST
The former British colony of Sierra Leone has been a focus of a money laundering scandal since the September 11 attacks in the US, when it was uncovered (in the New York Times) that a senior member of the al Qaeda organisation, Ibrahim Bah, had been purchasing and stockpiling diamonds mined by the country’s Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IRAN’S foreign minister Kamal Kharrazi has blamed the tough restrictions imposed on its acquisition of nuclear technology via the global Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) for his government’s use of secrecy in its civil nuclear programme. “Had it not been for the severity of the impediments, Iran would have pursued all its entirely legal nuclear activities with fuller transparency and in collaboration with other fellow members as it had always sought,” he told a United Nations disarmament conference, in Geneva.…

BY PHILIP FINE

MANY key players in the US drinks industry have been trying to crash the low-carb party currently making aspects of the country’s food industry giddy with sales. The drinks producers have seen the statistics: 15 per cent of Americans (32 million people) are now following high-protein reduced-carbohydrate plans such as the Atkins Diet; sales of high protein items like meat, cheese and eggs are up and high carb products like potatoes and pasta are down or stagnant; and over 800 new products that make low-carb claims have been introduced in the last three years.…

BY PHILIP FINE, SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE and KEITH NUTHALL

THE OFFICE International des Épizooties (OIE) has intensified calls for beef importing countries to refrain from over-reacting to BSE outbreaks. Looking at the recent USA infection, the OIE said it opposes resulting blanket beef bans, saying only specified risk materials and animals should be blocked.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WORLD tobacco and cigarette production is set to increase significantly this decade according to United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) projections, which estimates the number of smokers will grow from 1.1 billion in 1998 to around 1.3 billion in 2010.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE European Environment Agency reports that under current policies the EU’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2010 will be only 0.5 per cent below the 1990 target instead of the Kyoto target of 8 per cent. Sweden and the UK will do better than planned, but several will miss their targets by more than 20 per cent.…