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BANGLADESH'S CLOTHING AND TEXTILE SECTOR MOVES TOWARDS A GREENER FUTURE
BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA
A PILOT project of the World Bank’s private sector agency the International Finance Corporation (IFC) has kindled hope that Bangladesh’s burgeoning knitwear and garments industry could overcome its notorious environmental pollution problems at an affordable price. However, replicating the pilot’s innovative strategies across the industry in the country will not be easy: struggling with the challenges of sourcing environment friendly finance; securing power availability amidst irregular supplies; operating effective effluent treatment plants; and dealing with a lack of awareness amongst entrepreneurs.…
CHINA'S HINTERLAND AIRPORTS ARE LOSING MONEY BUT A STRONGER NEW BREED MAY BE EMERGING
BY MARK GAO, IN BEIJING
More than two-thirds of Chinese airports, most in smaller regional centres rather than China’s mega-cities, last year lost a combined Chinese Yuan Renminbi CNY2 billion (USD313 million). Yet there will be no let up in the construction of new regional airports in China, given government has dubbed the civil aviation sector as a "strategic industry".…
BANGLADESH'S CLOTHING AND TEXTILE SECTOR MOVES TOWARDS A GREENER FUTURE
BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA
A PILOT project of the World Bank’s private sector agency the International Finance Corporation (IFC) has kindled hope that Bangladesh’s burgeoning knitwear and garments industry could overcome its notorious environmental pollution problems at an affordable price. However, replicating the pilot’s innovative strategies across the industry in the country will not be easy: struggling with the challenges of sourcing environment friendly finance; securing power availability amidst irregular supplies; operating effective effluent treatment plants; and dealing with a lack of awareness amongst entrepreneurs.…
EU ROUND UP - BRUSSELS TO DELAY CARBON PERMIT AUCTIONS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission will postpone auctioning pollution permits sold under its emissions trading scheme (ETS) to potential further price falls, but has not decided how many allowances will be sold later. ETS permit prices are already depressed as Europe’s economic woes left oil and gas users with unused rights to emit carbon.…
EU REGULATORY ROUND UP - BRUSSELS MAKES BROADBAND ROLL OUT PRIORITY TARGET
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has been flexing its regulatory muscles to push the roll-out of high-speed broadband networks – trying to fine-tune European Union (EU) competition rules to encourage this development. Brussels is using its current legal powers and consulting on creating new rules and policies, with action being driven by pro-free market Dutch digital agenda Commissioner Neelie Kroes.…
EU ROUND UP - EFSA APPROVES AS SAFE FOR FOOD PLASTICS 10 PET RECYCLING SYSTEMS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has declared safe the use of recycled plastics in food contact technology where they are sourced from 10 recycling processes, the first time it has released such a formal opinion. These processes include four based on VACUREMA Prime technology – LuxPET, Jayplas, PolyQuest and CIER; five based on Starlinger IV+ technology – namely the Preformia, STF, MPTS, PET to PET and Eco Plastic systems; and the recycling process PETUK SSP.…
EFSA PANEL DECLARES NIACIN SAFE FOR LIVESTOCK
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has declared using niacin and niacinamide as nutritional feed additives in livestock is safe for consumers. A report from EFSA’s panel on additives and products or substances used in animal feed (FEEDAP) focused especially on its use in pigs and poultry, although it is also used in cattle.…
SCHMALLENBERG VIRUS MAY SURVIVE THE WINTER AND HIT LIVESTOCK IN 2013 - EFSA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SCHMALLENBERG virus (SBV) may survive this coming winter and infect livestock to the south and east of its current core outbreak areas in Germany, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has warned. Its experts say it is possible the virus will die off – but if not, EFSA has predicted it is most likely to re-emerge between mid-April and the end of May and "that any outbreak of SBV is likely to be of a similar size to the one that occurred in 2011".…
BRUSSELS AIRPORT TO BENEFIT FROM HIGH SPEED RAIL LINK
BY ALAN OSBORN
BRUSSELS Airport is braced for development following this month’s (June) inauguration of Diabolo, a new high-speed railway link financed by the European Commission. The airport has lacked access to the European high speed rail network, to which rivals Amsterdam, Paris and Frankfurt are all connected.…
EU STUDY FINDS EMPLOYEE PROFILING CAN BOOST AIRPORT SECURITY
BY CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS
UNDERSTANDING how individual employees make decisions can increase the efficiency of airport security staff and save millions of Euros, according to a European Union (EU)-funded project whose findings have been presented to a workshop in Brussels, Belgium.…