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Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has called on the European Union to widen its controls on pollution from sea-going ships to include polycyclic aromatics (such as PAH) and heavy metals, for instance nickel and vanadium. An agreed non-binding resolution has also called on the European Commission to propose widening the objective of its anti-ship pollution policies beyond tackling environmental and human health problems to that of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and their contribution to global warming.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GENETICALLY modified sugar beet is between 15 and 50 per cent more environment-friendly than conventional beet, according to a University of Reading, England, study. It says that herbicide-resistant GM beet requires less weed killer and pesticide treatment, cutting tractor fuel used as a spin-off, reducing the crop’s impact on global warming.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BINDING energy conservation targets have been proposed for European Union (EU) Member States by the European Commission, a move that could further tighten fuel economy rules for Europe’s transport sector. Brussels has proposed a general energy saving target of one per cent a year from 2006-12, measured against average energy distribution from the previous five years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-funded project has developed a technical system to search and retrieve the increasing amount of information held in digital moving image video, still photograph or audio archives. Its coordinators say that the project will be very useful for museums and research institutes who store such material.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GENETICALLY modified sugar beet is between 15 and 50 per cent more environment-friendly than conventional beet, according to a University of Reading, England, study. It says that herbicide-resistant GM beet requires less weed killer and pesticide treatment, cutting tractor fuel used as a spin-off, reducing the crop’s impact on global warming.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NATURAL disasters cost the world US$60 billion in 2003, up from around US$55 billion the previous year, a Munich Re assessment for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has claimed. The bulk of this year’s losses were caused by weather-related catastrophes, said UNEP, which is linking them with global warming.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL accord providing for joint-research projects on transport air pollution has been struck by the European Union (EU), the United States, Japan and China. Aimed at creating a global system to measure such emissions, the deal will provide for joint vehicle testing and should lead to the next generation of European emission standards for passenger cars and light vans.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL Expert Group on Nuclear Liability (INLEX) has started work for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), tasked with creating effective and globally accepted rules on responsibility for nuclear accidents. IAEA chief Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei said the group “will serve as a forum of expertise to advise on nuclear liability issues, with a view to promoting an effective and global nuclear liability regime.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GLOBAL Fund for the Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is giving US$26 million to west Africa’s Burkina Faso to boost its fight against HIV/AIDS and malaria; the money will be distributed by the United Nations Development Programme.…

BY RICHARD HURST
BHP Billiton, one of the world’s largest aluminium producers, has claimed that the boom in Chinese aluminium smelting is putting pressure on global alumina stocks and that any unforeseen disruptions to the world supply of the mineral would have an immediate affect on production of the metal.…