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BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL Agenda for Action has been drawn up at a UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) workshop on boosting “Clean Coal Combustion in Small and Medium Sized Boilers in Central and Eastern Europe.” The plan has been approved by experts from the region, along with those from western Europe, the USA, the World Coal Institute, the World Energy Council, IEA Coal Research and UNECE.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE AERONAUTICAL Telecommunication Planning Task Force of the International Civil Aviation Organisation has concluded that many problems impeding air industry communications in Africa are down to “human factors in terms of lack of…resources and training,” as well as shortages of networks and equipment.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A COORDINATING centre for European digital publishers of academic texts has been launched with a public blitz on the traditional publishing sector, accusing it of being lethargic and vulnerable to unscrupulous reviewer academics who may exploit their contents prior to publication.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DEVELOPING countries will become increasingly dependent on cereal, meat and milk imports by the year 2030, the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation has claimed, which says they could be producing only 86 per cent of their own cereal needs, with net imports rising from103 million tonnes today to 265 million tonnes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GERMAN insurance group Gerling is providing financial and managerial support to a ground-breaking environmental initiative in the hope that it will be copied and that the company will be asked to underwrite similar initiatives because of its expertise.…

BY MATT WELLS, in New York
A NEW survey of business leaders in the United States carried out by the security professionals’ organisation ASIS International, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and the US Chamber of Commerce has indicated that around US$59 billion dollars-worth of intellectual property and information were stolen in America over the year to last June.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has published a list of exported American confectionary and baking industry products that could be saddled with protective duties of up to 100 per cent, because of a World Trade Organisation ruling allowing Brussels to retaliate against the US’s use of foreign trade corporations to give its exporters illegal tax breaks.…

BY MATTHEW WELLS
A NEW survey of business leaders in the United States carried out by the security professionals’ organisation ASIS International, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and the US Chamber of Commerce has indicated that around US$59 billion dollars-worth of intellectual property and information were stolen in America over the year to last June.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UN’s Food and Agricultural Organisation has tried to scotch the claim that eating less meat in rich countries could help to reduce hunger in developing countries. Jelle Bruinsma, an editor of an FAO study looking ahead to 2030, says that the statement is erroneously based on the assumption that cereals used as animal feed would be freed up for human consumption in developing countries.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON
BRITISH investors have been given the opportunity to help produce the world’s first air powered car.

French inventor Guy Nègre and his company Moteur Development International (MDI) unveiled their concept to industry and Government officials in September (20th), hopeful of establishing manufacturing units in the UK.…