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Keith Nuthall
FRANCE is giving Euro 40 million to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to help it fund Russia’s cleansing of the radioactive contamination in the Barents Sea caused by its aging decommissioned nuclear fleet. The money will be channelled through the nuclear-related budgets of the EBRD-managed Northern Dimension Environmental Partnership (NDEP) Support Fund, the principal financing arm of European Union policies aimed at cleaning up pollution in its neighbours to the north.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW European eco-label for fridges and freezers that are extremely energy efficient has been launched by the European Commission; from 2004, such appliances can be labelled A+ and A++. The move builds on the European Union system that has existed since 1994, where fridges and freezers are rated from A to G, depending on their energy efficiency.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has welcomed the results of the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) World Radiocommunication Conference, saying it earmarked sufficient radio spectrum for the EU’s new Galileo global positioning satellite project. Brussels wanted the conference to ensure it could commend enough frequency to avoid interference problems.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE WORLD’S 20 largest corporations, including Exxon Mobil, BP and Chevron Texaco, have failed to prepare for the economic fall-out of climate change, says Washington DC’s Investor Responsibility Research Center. A study says none of the companies have estimated their potential financial losses from global warming.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission’s new Galileo global positioning satellite project should command enough earmarked frequency to avoid interference problems, following the recent International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) World Radiocommunication Conference. Its four weeks of negotiations set aside sufficient radio spectrum for Galileo, to the satisfaction of Erkki Liikanen, EU enterprise and information society Commissioner.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank is lending US$17.5 million in INDRupees to Indian textile company Alok Industries Ltd, allowing the Mumbai (Bombay)-based company to expand and modernise its knitting facilities and meet growing demand from domestic and international customers.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE PRESENT European Commission under the presidency of Romano Prodi has sometimes been said to be ‘green-minded,’ in that it takes a more friendly attitude towards the environment than either its predecessors or the European Union member governments.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW European eco-label for fridges and freezers that are extremely energy efficient has been launched by the European Commission; from 2004, such appliances can be labelled A+ and A++. The move builds on the European Union system that has existed since 1994, where fridges and freezers are rated from A to G, depending on their energy efficiency.…

Keith Nuthall
FRANCE is giving Euro 40 million to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to help it fund Russia’s cleansing of the radioactive contamination in the Barents Sea caused by its aging decommissioned nuclear fleet. The money will be channelled through the nuclear-related budgets of the EBRD-managed Northern Dimension Environmental Partnership (NDEP) Support Fund, the principal financing arm of European Union policies aimed at cleaning up pollution in its neighbours to the north.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GLOBAL shipping companies have been warned to be careful about information they reveal about the nature and positioning of their cargoes, with the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) using an assessment of the attack on the French tanker the Limburg as a cautionary example.…