BRUSSELS – According to the latest data on high speed broadband development, Europe still severely lags behind the United States and Asia, with only about two million high speed broadband subscribers[1], putting at risk Europe’s recovery from the current economic crisis.

São Paulo, June 23, 2009 – What does sugarcane have to do with Global Warming? Everything, when you consider Brazil’s highly successful, 30-year experience with sugarcane as a feedstock for ethanol. In place since the mid-70s, the largest program in the world to replace a fossil fuel with renewable energy has saved some 600 million tons of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It would take 20 years for six billion trees to achieve the same results.

The EU-Committee of the International Association of Public Transport (UITP) has elected Tony Depledge as its new Chairman. Mr Depledge succeeds Guido del Mese,
General Manager of ASSTRA, who chaired the Committee for four years.

Mr Depledge has been Director of Transport Policy in Arriva plc since 2001 and has a career in the transport industry which spans nearly 40 years.

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Brussels, 22/06/2009 – Chiara Miglioli, graduate from the College of Europe in Bruges, has won this year’s ACEA Competitiveness Award for a thesis on the influence of impact assessment and sustainable development objectives on policy-making in the European Commission.

€30 million to fund new projects!

The European commission recently launched a call for proposals in the framework of the Eco-Innovation programme. This call concerns the 4 following areas:

1. Recycling materials -

- improving sorting processes for waste materials
- strengthening the competitiveness of the recycling industries
- New recycling solutions and innovative products that use recycled materials

2.Buildings and construction -