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Keith Nuthall
THE UNITED Nations’ (UN) International Court of Justice has fixed the disputed maritime boundary between Nigeria and Cameroon, having decided that the contested Bakassi Peninsula should be considered part of Cameroon.

The court ruled that the maritime boundary should be set from the point of intersection of the centre of the navigable channel of the Akwayafe River with the straight line joining Bakassi Point and King Point, with many elements following previous Cameroon-Nigeria agreements dating back to the 1970’s.…

Keith Nuthall
ACCOUNTANTS should help develop standardised accounting methods to operate greenhouse gas trading systems created because of the Kyoto Protocol on global warming, says a new United Nations report, co-authored by finance industry heavy hitters, such as the Dresdner Bank Prudential and Swiss Re.…

Keith Nuthall
INSURANCE companies must brace themselves for exposure to US$150 billion in liabilities from natural disasters linked to global warming, says a new United Nations report, co-authored by industry heavy hitters, such as Prudential and Swiss Re. ‘Climate Change and the Financial Services Industry’ advises the insurance industry to follow an action plan, to withstand policy payouts for floods, storms, forest-fires and other natural disasters, which it says “appear to be doubling every decade and have reached one trillion US dollars in the past 15 years.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRANCE’S Suez and the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) have launched a joint drinking water improvements programme that will provide around Euro 300,000 in its first three years and will initially concentrate on the Volga-Caspian region.…

BY MARK ROWE
MANY air traffic control (ATC) organisations experience difficulties in attracting sufficient qualified staff. Indeed, the air transport industry does not seem to be as attractive an employer as it used to be. As a result, CANSO is examining selection and scaling methods, benchmarking qualification requirements, and evaluating common programmes for attracting new applicants.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITAIN remained an averagely taxed economy compared with its competitor rich nations in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), according to a new report from this international think-tank. It says that the share of Britain’s GDP represented by tax take remained at 37.4 per cent in 2001, the same as in 2000.…

BY PHILIP FINE

RUSSIAN officials have asked the United States Department of Agriculture for a more detailed explanation of the recent Pilgrim’s Pride mass meat recall. Russia’s Itar-Tass news agency reported that the Russian Veterinary Service has filed an official inquiry to better understand the October 12 recall of more than 27 million pounds of ready-to-eat turkey and chicken.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has taken a significant step towards the creation of a European Union (EU) greenhouse gas emissions trading system, as signatory governments of the United Nations (UN) Climate Change Convention gathered to meet in New Delhi this week, (October 23 to November 1).…

BY MARK ROWE
A TEAM of scientists has visited Bosnia and Herzegovina amidst concerns that 12 areas of the country were contaminated with harmful radiation after being targeted by ordnance containing depleted uranium (DU) during the conflict in the former Yugoslavia.…

BY MARK ROWE
INDONESIAN textile producers have warned that their industry faces thousands of job losses as smuggled used garments flood the Indonesian market. The past few months have seen a rise in smuggled goods from China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, the United States and some European countries.…