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:
b. Trade Finance:
- At hashtag#DCSA, we are committed to digitally transforming the container shipping industry. Our mission is to lead the industry towards systemic collaboration by creating open-source digital standards based on shared industry requirements.
- African SMEs need innovative trade finance solutions
- Digitalization is transforming the creative economy.
- Adapting to hashtag#changing hashtag#compliance and hashtag#regulation in the age of data and hashtag#digitalisation
- t was a great honor being invited by World Maritime University to speak at the annual Maritime Week. For those who cannot attend in person, the intervention will be published.
c. Sustainability & ESG
- Building a circular supply chain
- Vernon Dennis from Law Firm Howard Kennedy LLP pens thoughts on the incoming UK ESG Rating Regulations, that seek equivelency with the forthcoming EU set of regulations for ESG Rating
- Green hydrogen production by water electrolysis
- Natural Hydrogen in the Energy Transition: Takeaways and Opportunities
- Cultivating expertise to empower local innovators
- Navigating the Evolving Landscape of Sustainable Trade: A Call for Inclusive and Effective Due Diligence
- The voluntary carbon market (VCM) is meant to channel finance into climate projects and provide buyers with cost-effective decarbonisation options
- Embedding ESG & Sustainability Considerations Into the 3 Lines Model
- SDG Cities - Canada Country Report 2024
- Assessing CCUS Potential for LNG in the GCC
- How to Transport & Store Green Hydrogen
- Transition, Geopolitics and Green Industrial Policy
- Gold Standard has launched a new Soil Organic Carbon Activity Module to enhance carbon sequestration and soil health in managed pasturelands.
- Fossil fuel subsidies remain a persistent problem despite more than a decade of international commitments promising reform. How can governments strengthen existing commitments to make them fit for purpose?
- The Little Book of PUBLIC SPACE and the Internet of Things
- In 2022, the atmospheric concentrations of the main greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide all reached new record levels, with estimates of energy-related emissions indicating continued growth in 2023.
- 8% recycling rate for food waste in South Korea
- Governance and Economic Profitability in the Technology Sector
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