AMSTERDAM —Despite 20 years of effort, greenhouse gas emissions are going up instead of down, hitting record highs as climate negotiators gather to debate a new global warming accord. The new report by the International Energy Agency shows high emissions from fossil fuels is one of several pieces of bad news facing delegates from about 180 countries heading to Bonn, Germany, for two weeks of talks beginning Monday

VANCOUVER— A B.C.-based bioplastics company is coming closer to bringing renewably sourced plastics into new markets.

BERLIN AND VANCOUVER —Daimler will outfit its hydrogen fleet with Canadian-made fuel cells through a joint-venture with Ford and Ballard Power Systems. The companies have created a subsidiary called the Automotive Fuel Cell Corporation (AFCC). The fuel cells will be manufactured at a facility in Burnaby, B.C

Hamburg, Germany – Authorities suspect they have found the source of the E. coli outbreak in Europe that has killed 22 people and sickened more than 2,200. Authorities are still waiting on official laboratory results but are expected to confirm people were sickened by bean sprouts from a German organic farm, Gärtnerhof Bienenbüttel

AMSTERDAM —Despite 20 years of effort, greenhouse gas emissions are going up instead of down, hitting record highs as climate negotiators gather to debate a new global warming accord. The new report by the International Energy Agency shows high emissions from fossil fuels is one of several pieces of bad news facing delegates from about 180 countries heading to Bonn, Germany, for two weeks of talks beginning Monday. Another: The tsunami-triggered nuclear disaster in March apparently has sidelined Japan’s aggressive policies to combat climate change and prompted countries like Germany to hasten the decommissioning of nuclear power stations which, regardless of other drawbacks, have nearly zero carbon emissions

With packaging sustainability still evolving from being merely a catchy buzzword to a widely embraced ideal, the concept is clearly catching on in the time-tested beekeeping industry, with French-based honey producer Famille Michaud Apiculteurs recently generating a lot of buzz with its new lightweight, recycled plastic packaging that will dramatically cut the apiary’s overall environmental footprint in coming months. Jointly developed by the Austrian-based Greiner Packaging International and French plastics processor Roskoplast S.A.

PHILADELPHIA: Kodak’s security solutions group has released the KODAK TRACELESS Anywhere System for anti-counterfeiting, designed to help companies and law enforcement agencies combat counterfeiting and product diversion.

CALGARY: Cenovus Energy Inc. plans to accelerate oil project development over the next decade, investing an average of up to $3.5 billion a year as it seeks to increase production to about 500,000 barrels per day by the end of 2021. “Based on the strong performance delivered by our teams over the past year, we believe we can bring on substantially more oil production earlier than initially planned,” president and CEO Brian Ferguson said.

TORONTO— It’s going to be a year of big mergers and acquisitions in Canada’s manufacturing sector, according to a new report by PwC. Global M&A activity this past quarter hit US$16.6-billion—a 157 per cent jump compared to a year ago

TORONTO: The Japanese earthquake and tsunami continue to impact the automobile industry and the global economy, but demand for heavy trucks is driving up production, according to the latest Global Auto Report by Scotia Economics. The report shows global vehicle sales softening in May, with purchases roughly unchanged from a year ago – a significant slowdown from a 6% increase during the previous four months