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BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN INTERNATIONAL Panel for Sustainable Resource Management has been created by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), charged with helping split economic growth from the consumption of natural resources. Renewable energy and the development of biofuels are expected to be key focuses.…

BY MARK ROWE

THE POTENTIAL and impending influence of nanotechnology on soap and perfumery products has been acknowledged with a detailed report on the dramatic changes that may lie in store for the cosmetics industry.

The report, Nanotechnologies for Household and Personal Care, which runs to 130 pages, has been produced for the Institute of Nanotechnology, a UK government-funded research unit based at the University of Stirling, Scotland.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE FITTING of electronic stability control systems on all lorries used in the European Union (EU) is likely to become compulsory, following the approval of global standards for this technology by the United Nations. Its World Forum for Harmonisation of Vehicle Regulations has approved the technical standard.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

*Valero retail station

A Valero retail petrol station. Valero petrol is 5% ethanol

Credit – Valero

*Valero – Texas City

Valero’s coker unit at their Texas City refinery.

Credit – Valero

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Caption – Ethanol is now available at a growing number of US gas stations

Credit – National Renewable Energy Laboratory

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Caption – An ethanol production facility in the Midwestern United States, capable of producing 50 million gallons of ethanol annually.…

BY MARK ROWE

LORRIES are increasingly being stolen for their value as scrap and recycled materials, UK authorities have warned the road haulage industry. The rise in thefts of lorries has been blamed partly on the high prices now paid for scrap metal on the international markets – driven in part by China’s insatiable demand for metal – and on thieves who have realized that almost any part of a lorry, from wheel hubs to side panels, axles, catalytic converters, a plastic chair or the gold in the wiring looms has a recyclable value.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE PUBLISHERS Association has welcomed the formal request by the United States government for a World Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes panel charged with ruling on whether Chinese restrictions on the import of books and other copyrighted products breaks global commerce rules.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CHINA has been baldly accused of hosting much of the world’s booming counterfeit auto parts production. A detailed report by the planet’s largest think tank – the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) – said: "China has been repeatedly identified as the principal source of counterfeit activity in the automotive sector, involving both trademark and design infringements.…

BY ANDREW SALMON, in Seoul

THE WORDS ‘nuclear’ and ‘Korea’ automatically conjure up images of Kim Jong-il’s underground atomic weapons programs, but south of the heavily militarised border, it is South Korea that has quietly built up one of the world’s most competitive nuclear industries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has welcomed a cooperation agreement struck between the British and Irish governments to prevent illegal waste shipments across the land border between their two countries. Brussels was threatening legal action over the problem, because it broke European Union (EU) waste shipment rules, but with London and Dublin combining their forces, and tougher waste regulations being approved for Northern Ireland, the Commission has been satisfied.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE UNITED States and the European Union (EU) have agreed to open to the public the November 6 and 7 meetings of a disputes panel at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) considering their 12-year diplomatic battle over the banana trade.…