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CHINA'S INTEGRATED WASTE MANAGEMENT APPROACH SHOWS NEW KEENNESS FOR GREENER DISPOSAL METHODS
BY MARK GODFREY
COMMUNIST Party cadres from around China are being bussed out to Asuwei landfill in Beijing’s Changping suburb to view a showcase for how China wants to manage waste in the future. As China urbanises, its solid waste output has been climbing by 9% a year, said Rasmus Reinvag, co-author of a recent China environmental sector report by the WWF conservation group and Norwegian-government owned development group Innovation Norway.…
EUROPE: Researchers on notice for start of major research spending programmes
By Keith Nuthall
A major Euro 3.2 billion programme of research spending that will try to pull Europe out of recession and into a sustainable economic recovery has been launched by the European Commission.
At a ceremony in Brussels witnessed by more than 800 senior researchers and industrialists, the Commission put scientists on notice that millions of research Euros would soon start to pour out of three private-public partnerships funding R&D projects across Europe.…
MAJOR AUTO MANUFACTURERS GRAPPLE WITH PEDESTRIAN AND CYCLIST SAFETY SENSORS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A CONSORTIUM of major European auto manufacturers, engineers and researchers have developed prototype technology sensing whether pedestrians and cyclists may collide with a car, van, or lorry, alerting drivers in real time. However, the members of the WATCH-OVER group still have work before the resulting system can be marketed.…
GERMANY'S HANDLING OF THE AUTO INDUSTRY RECESSION DRAWS PRAISE IN EU REPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A COMPREHENSIVE report from a European Union (EU) think-tank has indicated that Britain’s new Pounds 2,000 scrappage scheme may not work, because of high levels of UK personal indebtedness.
The paper ‘Recent restructuring trends and policies in the automotive sector’ by the Dublin-based European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions has shown how Germany’s scrappage scheme has been markedly successful – in contrast to those in other EU member states, such as France and Italy.…
THE EU HYDROGEN PLATFORM - ROARING AHEAD OR A DAMP SQUIB?
BY DEIRDRE MASON
IT was to be the booster rocket for the European hydrogen and fuel cell industry – a Euro 1 billion package to support development of the technology and putting it on the market. Launched on last October in Brussels, the Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Joint Technology Initiative (JTI) linked the European Commission, European industrialists and the research community to a common goal of mass-marketing these promising technologies before 2020.…
CARIBBEAN STATES LOOK TO GREEN POWER TO UNDERPIN THEIR ENERGY SECURITY
BY JAMES FULLER
SMALL island states are always vulnerable in energy sustainability terms, but the growth in renewable energy technologies is giving them a better shot at security of supply. The Caribbean is a case in point, where green energy technologies are being explored across the region.…
UK CAR SCRAPPAGE SCHEME MAY NOT WORK
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A COMPREHENSIVE report from a European Union (EU) think-tank has indicated that Britain’s new Pounds 2,000 old car scrappage scheme may not work, because of high levels of UK personal indebtedness.
The paper ‘Recent restructuring trends and policies in the automotive sector’ by the Dublin-based European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions has shown how Germany’s scrappage scheme has been markedly successful – in contrast to those in other EU member states, such as France and Italy.…
AUTOMAKERS ON NOTICE FOR START OF MAJOR RESEARCH SPENDING ON GREEN CARS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AUTO makers have been put on notice for the release of around Euro 80 million in European Union (EU) research funding to develop green cars and associated road and roadside technologies. The money, the European Commission has announced, will come from its Seventh Framework Programme for research, with final details being released on July 30.…
BHUTAN'S TOBACCO SALES BAN UNDER THREAT AFTER IMPLEMENTATION FAILURES
BY KENCHO WANGDI
THE IMPLEMENTATION of the much vaunted sales and public place smoking ban in Bhutan, the tiny Himalayan kingdom, has not been easy. And now the country’s newly minted parliament is considering lifting the sales ban, while providing for tougher enforcement of the public place ban and fighting tobacco smuggling.…
CHINESE CARMAKERS ARE PREPARING TO SEEK THE ULTIMATE PRIZE, EUROPEAN MARKETS
BY MARK GODFREY
ONE might wonder why Chinese car makers would want to go abroad: China’s auto sales are up by as much as 40% in the first half of 2009 according to the National Bureau of Statistics here. Yet Chinese car firms have been gunning hard for sales in the UK and western Europe, both deemed as vital to global expansion plans developed by automakers BYD and Chery, explained Yale Zhang, a Beijing-based auto analyst at CLSA, an investment bank.…