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BY DEIRDRE MASON

A SIGNIFICANT boost in funding from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will speed the challenging switchover from ageing nuclear power stations in central and eastern Europe (CEE) to a cleaner, more efficient and more sustainable energy scene in these new and aspiring entrants to European Union (EU) membership.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is taking another serious step towards developing viable transport systems running on hydrogen, whose only emission is water. Following the success of its CUTE trials of hydrogen buses in large cities such as London, the EU is launching two more projects.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission is expanding the European Union’s (EU) international trial of hydrogen vehicles beyond the ongoing successful CUTE bus project that has involved London. It has announced two fresh projects: ZERO REGIO running eight fuel-cell passenger cars in Frankfurt and Mantova; and HyCHAIN:MINITRANS operating 158 small transport vehicles (minivans, minibuses, scooters, cargo bicycles and wheel chairs) in France, Germany, Spain and Italy.…

BY STEVEN SWINDELLS, in Johannesburg

SUB-SAHARAN Africa’s biggest cotton producer Mali is mulling GM cotton trials, a development which could open up cheap cotton supplies for the textile and clothing trade.

But resistance from local farmers to high seed costs and tough times for existing GM cotton growers in South Africa – the only African country where GM is commercially grown – may mean that Africa’s potential as a key supplier is still some way off.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has formally threatened the UK government with legal action at the European Court of Justice over alleged breaches of the European Union (EU) urban waste water treatment directive. Brussels claims that there are legally "insufficient collection and treatment facilities" for London, Torbay and Whitburn, in England, and Kilbarchan, in Scotland.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi

AN ALL-INDIA topper in school, the best performer in 1980 within his country’s Chartered Accountants’ Institute, and the first to hoist the sail of accountancy-outsourcing to India: Sunil Goel, 49, combines his academic knowledge, business skills and passion for information technology to reap the benefits of globally expanding business.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

IS the fuel cell bus a runner? The question is key to any passenger transport executive’s decisions on how to meet increasingly stringent emission controls, and the continuing EU HyFLEET:CUTE trials of a fleet of hydrogen-powered fuel-cell Daimler-Benz Citaro buses in London will help UK transport planners to decide for themselves.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

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FOUR highly diverse collections have made it through to the shortlist for the prestigious Gulbenkian Prize for museums and galleries. Brunel’s SS Great Britain at Bristol; The Collection – Lincoln’s new museum of art and archaeology; the new underground gallery at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in Wakefield; and the modernised galleries for the medical collection at the Hunterian Museum in London are now competing for the GBPounds 100,000 prize and the kudos that goes with it.…

BY MARK ROWE

IF proof were needed that nanotechnology is more than an esoteric scientific discipline then it surely comes with the news that nanotech is about to come to a fast-food restaurant near you. Last month (March), OilFresh, a California-based company, commercially launched a nanotechnology-based frying oil in the United States.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Commission draft guidelines that would insist on the registration of all non-profit organisations in the European Union (EU), to guard against their abuse by terrorist groups, have been criticised by the London-based Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA).…