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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CLEAN Development Mechanism (CDM), of the Kyoto Protocol has approved its first emissions trading project: the NovaGerar, landfill gas to energy project, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Netherlands CDM Facility will buy 2.5 million tons of its CO2 emissions savings at Euro 3.35 a ton.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE LAST people most farmers would like controlling European agricultural policy are glib public relations experts, armed with palm-top digital personal organisers and a sheaf of focus group studies. Such complaints have often been levelled at the Blair government, accused of bending with the wind of public opinion.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is largely on track for a timely start to its emissions trading system on January 1, with the unconditional approval in late October of six more CO2 emission allocation plans, from Belgium, Estonia, Latvia, Luxembourg, Slovakia and Portugal.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH
LAST summer’s European Parliament elections plus the delayed inauguration of the new European Commission under José Manuel Barroso has meant many quiet months in developing European Union (EU) policies affecting museums. What changes to EU cultural policy might be expected under Slovakia’s Jan Figel, the new education and culture Commissioner for the next five years will also not be evident until 2005.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GERMAN clay producer Fuchs is at the centre of a row involving the contamination of animal feed with dioxin, after its kaolin – used by agricultural to separate potato peels from potatoes – was found to contain the cancer-causing chemical.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ECSTASY has become Britain’s number two illicit drug, overtaking amphetamines, warns a new European Union (EU) narcotics report alerting public health professional across Europe to increasing abuse of most recreational drugs. The best news highlighted by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) is that heroin use and new HIV infections are falling in western Europe, although they are increasing in many eastern European countries, such as the Baltic States.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CLEAN Development Mechanism (CDM), of the Kyoto Protocol has approved its first emissions trading project: the NovaGerar, landfill gas to energy project, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Netherlands CDM Facility will buy 2.5 million tons of its CO2 emissions savings at Euro 3.35 a ton, totalling Euro 8.4 million.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
IS there a role for the insurance companies of rich countries to play in developing “micro finance” in the world’s very poorest regions? The question has become relevant following the launch earlier this month (November) of the International year of Microcredit 2005 by the UN’s Agricultural Fund for Development (IFAD).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
HEALTH ministers from seven European Union (EU) countries have announced a plan to boost research cooperation to develop an HIV/AIDS vaccine. Meeting in Paris, ministers from Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the Netherlands agreed to jointly organise studies and clinical trials to speed up discoveries, avoiding wasteful duplicate testing.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
HEALTH ministers from seven European Union (EU) countries have agreed to boost research cooperation to develop an HIV/AIDS vaccine. Meeting in Paris, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the Netherlands agreed to jointly organise studies and clinical trials to speed up discoveries, avoiding duplicate testing.…