Go to the Content Thursday, 9 February 2012
Your search for "Environmental Protection Agency" produced 45 items.
| 1. Don't forget to count the trees | December 21, 2011 |
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Power plants burning harvested wood can pack a massive carbon footprint. If a tree falls in the forest, do carbon regulators hear it fall and adjust their accounts? The sad... |
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| 2. California disputes Canadian claims on tar-sands emissions | December 8, 2011 |
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US state defends its environmental standards. California's environmental protection agency has written to the European Commission and EU member states rejecting claims from... |
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| 3. EU threatens to close access to internal market | October 6, 2011 |
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18 poorer countries told to sign and ratify economic partnership agreements. The European Commission is trying to persuade 18 poorer countries to sign and ratify economic... |
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| 4. EU, South Africa hold third summit | September 28, 2010 |
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Commission to provide €122 million in educational support. The European Union and South Africa have their third-ever summit in Brussels today (28 September). The talks... |
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| 5. News in brief | June 11, 2009 |
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| 6. EU signs trade deal with African countries | June 5, 2009 |
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Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland sign interim Economic Partnership Agreement. The European Union has signed an interim Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with Botswana,... | |
| 7. Burnt by the sun | June 4, 2009 |
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Biofuels were once seen as the future of energy production but concerns about the damage they can do has clouded their reputation. For a brief period, biofuels bloomed in... |
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| 8. News in brief | March 26, 2009 |
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| 9. EU pushing for trade deal with southern Africa | February 10, 2009 |
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Trade Commissioner Catherine Ashton wants to replicate South African deal with rest of the region. The European Commission is pressing South Africa to give its support to a... | |
| 10. Developing countries face struggle over cheap drugs | November 20, 2008 |
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Trade deals could make it harder to import generic medicines. Developing countries will find it harder to import cheap generic drugs because of trade deals with the EU,... | |
| 11. The slow road towards partnership | November 13, 2008 |
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The Commission argues that free-trade agreements can advance regional integration. |
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| 12. Partnership deals could harm African fisheries | October 30, 2008 |
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Local fishermen face being bought out by European companies. Fishermen in Africa will lose out from market-access agreements being negotiated by the EU, according to groups... | |
| 13. Caribbean trade deal sealed | October 15, 2008 |
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Two states refuse to sign comprehensive trade-liberalisation agreement that critics argue could harm the region's economies.
The EU today signed a long-discussed and... | |
| 14. Hunger that starves on EU's flawed trade policy | September 18, 2008 |
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EU trade deals are helping to make the world hungrier. When world leaders meet in New York later this month to review the Millen-nium Development Goals (MDG), the elephant... | |
| 15. EU-Caribbean trade deal could be renegotiated | September 11, 2008 |
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Liberalisation of services and investment are contentious. Peter Mandelson, the EU's trade commissioner, might have to renegotiate the Union's draft economic partnership... | |
| 16. EU backs South African role in Zimbabwe | July 25, 2008 |
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The EU also calls on Pretoria to put pressure on Sudan's president in wake of genocide charge.
The EU today threw its backing behind South Africa's efforts to act as a... | |
| 17. The Commission's partnership-deal dilemma | July 10, 2008 |
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Limited progress on finalising deals; fears over effect on intra-regional trade. The European Commission's strategy of securing economic partnership agreements (EPAs) with... |
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| 18. Making a pig's ear of African agriculture | May 19, 2008 |
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The EU should stop dumping pigmeat on the African market.
After frozen chicken, the EU is now dumping huge quantities of pork in Africa. Export subsidies introduced... | |
| 19. Economic development deals ‘may be revised' | April 3, 2008 |
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Developing countries have the right to renegotiate interim economic partnership deals (EPAs) reached with the EU, according to the European Parliament's legal service. The... | |
| 20. EPAs pose threat to ACP regional integration | March 19, 2008 |
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Negotiations over Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) with the European Commission have divided the African, Caribbean and Pacific countries that are the ostensible... | |
