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.
News:
a. Supply Chain Management:
- Vogue Business: Fashion’s cotton supply chain is broken. Will brands agree to fix it? (re: Sourcery blockchain app)
- Supply Chain Xchange: Supply chains swapped pandemic impacts for new risks in 2023
- Supply Chain Brain: SEC Drops Scope 3 Emissions From Planned Disclosure Requirements
- Supply Chain Brain: EU Waters Down Supply Chain Due Diligence Law
- Supply Chain Management Review: 5G and Supply Chain Connectivity: Enhancing Logistics in the Digital Age
- Canada: CanExport funding for exporters, innovators, associations and communities
- Sourcing critical raw materials through trade and cooperation frameworks
b. Trade Finance:
- Ensuring Smooth Transfers in URDTT Context
- State of Global Fintech
- Digitizing Commerce: The UK's 2023 Leap into Paperless Trade.
- There will be no overnight revolution or 'big bang' after which trade is fully digitalised. Instead, a gradual and steady evolution of processes will see continued efficiency gains over time. However, having an end goal or vision in mind is nonetheless important.
- Exploring Electronic Record Disposal
c. Sustainability & ESG
- A Sourcebook for Policy-Makers in Developing hashtag#Cities
- #SDG hashtag#indicator relevant for older persons.
- Navigating Market Turmoil with ESG Funds: Insights from the 2020 COVID-19 Crisis
- Sustainable Transport and development report by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
- The Future European Cities and Regions Ranking 2024
- Rethinking timbers
- This Sourcebook on Sustainable hashtag#UrbanTransport addresses
- From Risk to Reward: Transforming Stranded Assets into Sustainable Investment Goldmines
- CBA18: local solutions inspiring global action
- The Principles of Responsible Investment (PRI) new EU Policy Roadmap has been released.
- Ending Deforestation from Cocoa in West Africa with New Data-Driven Resources
- A big boost to Europe’s climate change goals
- "What is a hashtag#lifestyle?
- private sector in shaping climate-responsive agrifood systems! FAO | UNDP
- hashtag#Energizing hashtag#Green hashtag#Cities in Southeast Asia:
- ESG — should you bother?
- Embracing Sustainable Development for All Ages
- Tomorrow's Living Station
- EU Council Fails to Approve New Environmental, Human Rights Sustainability Due Diligence Law
Events:
- Apr 3-5: NFT-NYC
- Apr 18: Hyperledger Supply Chain & Trade Finance SIG - Farm to Plate
- May 2: Hyperledger Supply Chain & Trade Finance SIG - SIG Member & The Giving Chain CEO Bobbie Muscara will present on how they use NFTs
- May 16 Hyperledger Supply Chain & Trade Finance SIG - Alexander Style of Vinturas
- June 4-5: Freightwaves Future of Supply Chain, Atlanta, GA