This weekly news digest is created by community members in the Hyperledger Supply Chain and Trade Finance Special Interest Group as a way to keep people up to date on the latest developments in this space. If you have news to share that you would like to let the group know about, please feel free to edit this wiki page or join one of the upcoming group meetings and share your news with other group members.
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a. Supply Chain Management:
- A Metric of Global Maritime Supply Chain Disruptions: The Global Supply Chain Stress Index (GSCSI) (English)
- BSCA Magazine for 2023
b. Trade Finance:
- How do Treasury dealers manage their positions?
- Trade for prosperity
- The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) adopted the UNCITRAL Model Clauses on Specialized Express Dispute Resolution (SPEDR) (the “SPEDR Model Clauses”) on 1 July at its 57th session in New York.
- New whitepaper addresses working capital management amid economic shifts
c. Sustainability & ESG
- Developing a National Green Taxonomy guide by The World Bank
- Green Truth
- Verra Inactivates Nitrogen Management Methodology
- Empowering Small Island Developing States: Scaling Up Renewable Energy for Resilient Economic Growth
- An estimated annual investment of US$700 billion is needed to achieve the long-term goals and short-term targets of the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). Between now and 2030, wealthy nations currently plan to provide only US$30 billion annually to economically developing countries to support GBF implementation.
- The European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) define the rules for hashtag#SustainabilityReporting under the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD).
- Reducing sectoral hard-to-abate emissions to limit reliance on carbon dioxide removal
- The hashtag#CSDDD has been officially published!
- New content alert: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) for National Adaptation Plan (NAP) processes
- Watch NAP Global Network's webinar on how governments can design and implement their NAP process in a way that responds to peace and conflict dynamics.
- Natural infrastructure in action as floating treatment wetlands were installed this week at the water retention pond outside the Rural Municipality of Springfield office in Oakbank, Manitoba.
Events:
- Sept 9-11, 2024: ASCM Connect 2024, Austin, TX
- Sept 16-18: Linux Foundation Open Source Summit Europe, Vienna, Austria. Includes a "SupplyChainSecurityCon" track.
- Sept 29-Oct. 2, 2024: CSCMP’s EDGE Supply Chain Conference & Exhibition, Nashville, TN
- Nov 19-21, 2024: Future of Freight Festival, Chattanooga, TN
- Feb 10-12, 2025: Manifest, Las Vegas, NV