Liu Xiao spends her weeks visiting sludge and organic waste treatment plants across China. The travel can be tiring but as a technical and policy adviser on waste management she must help implement President
After eight months, nearly 8,500 cases and 805 deaths, severe acute respiratory syndrome is officially under control. Yesterday's move by the World Health Organisation to lift its warning against
Fraught negotiations over plans to reform the European Union Union's euro 43bn system of farm support reached a crucial phase last night, after EU agriculture ministers gathered in Luxembourg for
The world's first global emissions trading market is set to be launched in 18 months, after the European Union agreed on a scheme to control greenhouse gases. The EU's emissions trading scheme will
Danish government installed filters on the cement factory in Romania and new power plant has changed the area beyond recognition. But Danes were not acting out of altruism. Their help was promoted
A group of developing countries has unveiled a $250m initiative with Medecins sans Fronteres, the French non-governmental organisation, to research disease ignored by western drug companies but which
The United Nations called on the rich world to kickstart stalled global trade negotiations by unilaterally scrapping agricultural export subsidies and ending dumping of farm products on developing
Europe's farmers of sugar, olive oil, tobacco and cotton face fresh upheavals as Brussels moves on from the subsidy reforms agreed this week to tackle other agricultural sectors. The paper agreed for
The US has suspended plans to advance free trade talks with Egypt in response to the Arab country's decision not to join the US in the World Trade Organisation complaint against Europe's ban on
By 2300 the human race will be approaching an average life expectancy of 100, with a relatively static population, and listening to a lot more African music, the United Nations' top demographer
India and China have agreed to co-ordinate their positions on a range of issues in the World Trade Organisation
