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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE UNITED Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has announced that from January 1, all vehicle fuels sold in sub-Saharan Africa will be lead-free. Ironically, the last country to abandon lead was the region’s most developed – South Africa. The phase-out follows pledges made at the World Summit on Sustainable Development, in Johannesburg, 2002.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE UNITED States Trade Representative (USTR) office has launched a swingeing attack on the European Union’s (EU) negotiating position at the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Doha Development Round agricultural talks. In a detailed report, it says the EU’s proposals for cutting subsidies and tariffs "does not deliver substantial improvement of market access, and this low level of ambition threatens the ability to deliver meaningful results for the Doha round".…

BY MONICA DOBIE

A SAFE and cheap anthrax vaccine could be grown to inoculate every person in the United States, according to a recent study from the University of Central Florida. Mice immunised with the vaccine produced through the genetic engineering of tobacco plants survived lethal doses of anthrax greater than those ever exposed to humans, it said.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A GLOOMY assessment from the United Nations Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has warned that not only could bird flu now be endemic in Turkey but that there is a serious risk of migratory birds from Africa this Spring carrying the pathogen further afield.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

ECONOMIC growth, especially in emerging markets, is forcing international food businesses to take a closer look at opportunities in potentially unstable countries, and the global aid community is keen to help. One international institution is well positioned, especially given the increasing demand for development projects to be largely private financed: the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, or MIGA, of the World Bank.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE UNITED States International Trade Commission has been told by a North America Free Trade Area (NAFTA) panel to review a decision to renew a countervailing duty on Canadian exports to the USA of alloy magnesium. The panel ruled the commission "has not provided a reasoned explanation based on all of the evidence" that scrapping duties would lead to Québec producer Magnola unfairly underselling and harming the health of American producers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers was expected to give its formal blessing today (Tues 20/12) to the long-negotiated wine trade deal struck in September between the United States and the European Commission. There has been some opposition to the agreement within Europe, notably amongst Champagne houses opposing the agreement’s approval of grandfather rights allowing American wine makers to continue using EU geographical terms, such as their own (and Burgundy, Chablis, Sherry, etc).…

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

AN INTERNATIONAL alliance of environmental and conservation organisations, led by the United Nations Environment Programme, is developing maps pinpointing lakes, marshes and other wetlands, where wild birds potentially infected with bird flu are likely to fly, helping health authorities prevent and plan for outbreaks.…

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.…