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BY ALAN OSBORN

ANGLO-Dutch oil giant Shell is not in much doubt that hydrogen is one of the fuels of the future, if not the fuel of the future. Barely a month ago, in June, Duncan Macleod, (NOTE: SPELLING IS CORRECT) global vice president of Shell Hydrogen, told an clean technology conference in the US that Shell had restructured its organisation "to prepare for hydrogen’s transition into the mainstream, bringing it into our downstream fuels portfolio, alongside gasoline, diesel, LPG, CNG – as well as biofuels and GTL."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A PROPOSED revamping of the European Union (EU) system for awarding EU ecolabels would establish the legal authority for creating ecolabelling for cars within Europe. A proposed new ecolabelling regulation lays down the procedure for drafting and approving technical rules for complex manufactured goods.…

BY BILL CORCORAN

WITH a crippled economy, inflation running at over 2.2 million per cent and a government partial to confiscating the assets and local operations of foreign companies when it sees fit, doing business in Zimbabwe is undoubtedly a risky undertaking.…

BY MARK ROWE

EUROPEAN car manufacturers could face new requirements in future to subscribe to a continent-wide eco-labeling scheme. Across the European Union (EU), several products are already subject to ratings on their environmental sustainability and are required to meet benchmarks for good environmental performance, the sustainable production and consumption of products, and the sustainable provision and use of services.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A DETAILED report from the European Parliament has called on municipal governments to produce ‘sustainable urban mobility plans’ that involve services linking transport modes, such as private and company cars, with buses, light rail, ferry and even bicycle transport.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE FRENCH and German governments have struck agreement over the proposed compulsory 120g/km target for automobiles within the European Union, (EU), with Paris giving ground to Berlin in some key areas.

Germany has opposed the European Commission-proposed average emissions cap saying the burden on technological changes would fall unfairly on its own iconic auto industry, producing – as it does – high quality, powerful cars with comparatively intense CO2 emissions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has underlined potential agreement over the European Commission’s planned 120g/km CO2 emissions target by formally calling on Brussels to table formal legislative proposals by Christmas. In a communiqué, ministers gave "support to the EU objective of 120g CO2/km on average for new cars sold in the EU by 2012".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE FLEET management industry has been asked by the European Commission whether car advertisements should include clear information about models’ CO2 emissions. Brussels thinks existing directive 1999/94/EC mandating car CO2 pollution information "is not working as well as it could" in influencing consumer behaviour.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

THE EUROPEAN Commission has gone for broke over the fitting of new safety technology in lorries and has formally proposed a law insisting on its use. The transport industry has broadly welcomed the move, but fears it will increase costs, and is concerned that the technology is still in its infancy.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE UN World Tourism Organisation wants the global tourism sector to use CO2 efficient cars to serve growing demand for international leisure motoring. It warns road transport tourism already accounts for 2% of global CO2 emissions, and this proportion is expected to rise, especially with the growing middle classes of China, India and Brazil taking more holidays.…