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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EXECUTIVE secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Yvo de Boer has announced that he will be quitting his job in July. He has led the UNFCCC Secretariat since 2006, managing the complex efforts to replace the Kyoto Protocol.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

THE ISLAND Gulf Kingdom of Bahrain has embarked on a US$4.7 billion (Euro 3.45 billion) expansion of its one and only commercial airport, the Bahrain International Airport (BIA), to handle rising passenger traffic and regain its position as an aviation hub in the region.…

BY GARRY PIERRE-PIERRE

WHEN an earthquake of a magnitude of seven on the Richter scale struck Haiti in January, it destroyed most of this 9 million population Caribbean country’s infrastructure, including ports and airports. Many businesses have suffered, including the tobacco sector, with many retail outlets ruined, especially in the capital Port-au-Prince whose central business district was shattered by the quake.…

BY GARRY PIERRE-PIERRE

WHEN an earthquake of a magnitude of seven on the Richter scale struck Haiti in January, it transformed the poorest county in the Western Hemisphere to its largest construction site.

As the country’s leaders unveiled a US$14 billion reconstruction plan for the battered country, international excavation and construction companies, including some from Great Britain have lined up for contracts to rebuild the hundreds of commercial and residential properties that were destroyed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

WITH a new European Commission in office, major decisions can now be made on pushing ahead with European Union (EU) energy policy priorities: Brussels has released a Euro 4 billion package of 31 gas infrastructure (and 12 electricity) projects.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

TALKS between the United States and the European Union (EU) on deepening their ‘open skies’ agreement will focus on the key question of allowing free trans-Atlantic investment within both sides’ aviation sectors. EU ministers have been advised by the European Commission that negotiations in Madrid on February 15-17 made "significant progress" on common "environmental protection, labour, [and] competition rules and reciprocal recognition of regulatory decisions."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE SWEDISH and Austrian governments have been given an additional year to spend the Euro 15.6 million in earmarked European Union (EU) subsidies for the auto sector previously announced by the European Commission.

These payments – Euro 9.8 million for Sweden and Euro 5.7 million for Austria – come from the EU’s Globalisation Adjustment Fund, which is designed to help industries hit by unavoidable international competition.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

MOVES have been made to delay a vote by the European Parliament on the European Union’s (EU) agreement with the United States on passenger name record (PNR) data handovers. The parliament’s civil liberties committee is concerned a ‘no’ vote, which would scrap the system, could spark serious restrictions on EU citizens entering the USA.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE UNITED Nations and Brazil are helping a small west African country fight against its exposure to organised drugs crime by funding and helping manage the construction of a new police academy. Since a civil war in the late 1990s, Guinea-Bissau – a former Portuguese colony – has seen weak governments under attack from international narcotics rings.…

BY GAVIN BLAIR, FRANCES WANG, RAGHAVENDRA VERMA and KARRYN MILLER

The Asian beer market, having overtaken Europe, is now the largest in the world, according to Japanese brewery Kirin. The region accounts for 31.7% of global consumption, compared to 30.8% for Europe, claims the annual report from the Kirin Institute of Food and Lifestyle.…