#17 - Weekly News Digest 20230508-0514
Edition #17 - 2023:
- "#ecommerce from a #gender and #development perspective - UNCTAD ":
- "Launch of the Trade and Environment Review 2023":
- "Vodafone in JV with Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation for #economyofthings #blockchain":
- "Zimbabwe launches #gold-backed digital #tokens ":
- "#ESG, #blockchain #traceability startup Everledger goes bust":
- "As legal frameworks to protect #ocean and #biodiversity increase, what can investors do?"
- The latest bi-weekly  #foodsecurity  update by The World Bank is out:
- "IKEA car charging points to use #blockchain to trace #renewableenergy ":
- "As legal frameworks to protect ocean and biodiversity increase, what can investors do?":
- Joint #EU-#us Stakeholder Event - Transatlantic Cooperation on #digital Initiatives to enhance #trade :
- "Ravi Menon: The work of the NGFS in four emerging issues in #climatechange ":
- *#standards and the #sustainabledevelopmentgoals":
- "#customs reform in #developingcountries – Time for a rethink? (The World Bank)":
- "Switzerland joins efforts to secure global #supplychains ":
- "Collective Progress Report
A status update of the progress made by over 200 signatories in implementing the Principles across their activities" - "#infrastructure #tokenization - Does #blockchain have a role in the #financing of #infrastructure ?":
- "The State of Play of Natural Infrastructure on the Canadian Prairies":
- The #sustainabledevelopmentgoal dedicated to life below #water (SDG 14) is the least funded of all the goals, with only 1.6% of total Official Development Assistance directed to the #oceaneconomy.
- #ESG and #financialperformance :
Uncovering the relationship by aggregating evidence from 1,000 plus studies published between 2015 – 2020 - "#climate -related Data: The Investors' Perspective":
- "Global Shipping Business Network (GSBN) enables #paperless cargo release at Qingdao Port":
- "World's first live electronic transferable record (#ETR) witht TradeTrust"
- "#ocean treaty set to address #climatechangeimpacts, #pollution, #biodiversity":
- "#ESG Information overreach may be new #data challenge":
- "Policy Brief - Growing #middleclass and #import substitution connecting the dots to unlock Made in #africa  "
- "AIIB Pty Ltd - Insurance Brokers and Risk Managers issues first #climateadaptation bond":
- "Financing the future with Lesley Ndlovu, CEO of Africa Risk Capacity"
- "How a boat made of #plastic put the spotlight on #pollution":
- "Of bytes and #trade : Quantifying the impact of #digitalisation on #trade ":
- "The race is on, but #cooling industry needs to accelerate #netzero efforts":
- "Improving #energyaccess key to meeting #development goals in #africa ":
- "#chemicals in #plastics - A technical report"