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A BOOK detailing practical ways in which governments can reduce the costs of dealing with major challenges such bird flu, terrorism and climate change has been released by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

COMMONWEALTH secretary-general Don McKinnon has welcomed Britain and France’s decision to raise billions of dollars for health and education in developing countries by floating bonds on financial markets. "This is a bold and major step forward in raising resources," he said.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

THE EUROPEAN Commission is getting tougher on vehicle emissions from the public sector. A proposed new directive, announced on December 21 last year, puts public-sector green vehicle procurement in the spotlight. It was announced on the same day as tighter new emissions levels for petrol and diesel-driven cars and light vans under the Euro V requirements.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

BRITISH nurses might be forgiven for thinking that the 25 eminent judges who make up the European Union’s (EU) top legal institution, the European Court of Justice (ECJ), have little in common with them, and they may well be right.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, in London

AFTER years of uncertainty, a timetable has now been fixed for the elimination of the air conditioning gas HFC 134a from cars sold in the European Union (EU). No, this won’t mean an end to air conditioned autos in Europe any more: what the deal really means is that auto and component makers have been given a generously long time to come up with a new refrigerating agent that doesn’t affect the climate by emitting fluorinating greenhouse gases.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

IN the next few weeks, contracts are expected to be signed for the UK debut of a pioneering underground waste collection system that can also build recycling into the operation from the outset. If it proves successful here, it could see a marked reduction in the bulky collection banks that are such a feature of today’s built environment.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

The EU’s main lending institution, the European Investment Bank, is to make a loan of £450 million to Transport for London (Tfl) to help finance construction of the East London Line Project (ELLP) – a key component of a pounds 10 billion programme to improve transport links for the 2012 Olympic Games.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

THE LATEST round of European Union (EU) proposals to tighten up laws fighting the use of illegally unsafe commercial shipping, announced on November 23, 2005, will place shippers who want to continue operating in EU-controlled waters under closer scrutiny than ever, says the European Commission.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON, in London

THE EUROPEAN car industry is putting itself in a strong position to tackle competition from rising economies, a leading UK automotive industry expert told wardsauto.com.

Speaking after the European Union (EU) launched its CARS 21 roadmap for a competitive automobile industry, Professor Garel Rhys, director of the Centre for Automotive Industry Research at Cardiff University, Wales, said: "Our product has renewed itself.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has rejected a British government attempt to strike down a European Union (EU) regulation controlling smoke flavourings in foods. London claimed that that rather than using legitimate EU treaty powers harmonising national laws, the regulation creates "a centralised procedure at EU level for the authorisation of smoke flavourings for foods".…