#10 - Weekly News Digest 20240311-0317

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:

• The Loadstar: SeaCube boss calls for more reefers to be manufactured outside China
• How Artificial Intelligence is Reshaping the Shipping Industry
• Unlocking Trade Data Flows with Digital Trus
• Reality Check: Shifting Away from Globalization
• Benefits from adopting hashtag#Blockchain technology for Component hashtag#AssemblySupplychain Management is at the core of this hashtag#ResearchPaper by five scholars, viz., Xiaoxi Zhu, et. al.
• From Source to Shelf - Enhancing Pharmaceutical Transparency with Blockchain and Location Data
• Digital Product Passport
• Trade in processed food
• Unlocking Africa's Prosperity: the Future of African Trade in the AfCFTA Era.
• Critical Minerals Initiatives for Green Supply Chains: How Multilateralism Can Help
• Digital agriculture in FAO projects in sub-Saharan Africa

b. Trade Finance:

• MLETR Tracker
• New Episode Alert: Big Impact Podcast Featuring Peter Kern from CargoX
• Navigating Security Protocols in Digital Trade Transactions
• Unlocking Digital Frontiers: the URDTT Playbook
• The United Bank For Africa (UBA) and African Guarantee Fund (AGF) on Monday signed a partnership that ensures that UBA provides US$100m in new loans to SMEs and business owners across the 20 African countries where the bank has presence.
• Championing a Greener Tomorrow: Towards Resource Efficiency and Pollution Management
• France’s Alexandre Holroyd brings forth proposal to boost digital trade in France
• Navigating Sanction Clauses in Digital Trade Transactions
• Making MLETR a reality - The DNI Adoption Group
• EU Payment Preferences & Digitalisation
• A new horizon for trade finance
• Unlocking Digital Frontiers: the URDTT Playbook
• Navigating Dispute Settlement in URDTT Transactions
• Trade Finance in the modern era: Embracing agility
• The Limits of DeFi for Financial Inclusion
• Trade finance might not be sexy, but it’s blockchain’s key to success

c. Sustainability & ESG

• The new Guidelines for Climate Target Setting for Banks of the hashtag#NetZeroBanking Alliance
• Resilience in Crisis: How ESG Funds Outshone During the 2020 COVID-19 Market Upheaval.
• Climate Forward: How the SEC's New Disclosure Rule is Changing the Game
• Transitioning to Sustainable Industry, hashtag#Innovation and hashtag#Infrastructure
• Cycler infrastructure industry
• From Risk to Reward: Transforming Stranded Assets into Sustainable Investment Goldmines.
• The key to unlocking sustainable success: Mastering ESG data exchange
• DEFINING SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY
• Cities resilience program
• Global Resources Outlook 2024 | United Nations Environment Programme
• Trends in Sustainable Buildings and Infrastructure
• Defining wellbeing
• How to make them work in Developing Countries, and how donors can help.
• A Sustainable Asset Valuation of the FAME II policy in India
• Methodology for Sustainable Management of Mangroves
• The Future Of Nature And Business
• Natural capital approaches frame the hashtag#value of hashtag#nature within the context of hashtag#economic hashtag#prosperity and hashtag#human hashtag#wellbeing.
• Transitioning to a Regenerative Economy: Why 'Doing Less Bad' Isn't Enough
• tate of Global Environmental Governance 2023, authored by the Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB) team
• new report by European Environment Agency singles out financial risks stemming from climate change as one of the key challenges ahead. European Commission
• Carbon Capture, Usage and Storage (CCUS)
• Sustainability Reporting: Enhancing Consistency and Comparability
• Advancing Sustainability: The Drive Towards Hydrogen-Based Technologies
• Guidelines for environmental assesment
• Traditionally, through thousands of years of hashtag#human settlement, hashtag#urban hashtag#streets have performed multiple functions
• How have hashtag#India’s energy subsidies changed over the past decade, and which sectors are benefiting the most?
• Environmental Impact Assessments (ElAs)
• Sony Bank to launch green security token, web3 NFT app
• The Green Curtain: A Riveting Exploration of the EU's Deforestation Crackdown
• Climate resilient infrastructure
• The Rockefeller Foundation reveals a growing optimism among climate investors
• Empowering Workforces Globally: The Transformative Impact of the World Bank’s ESS2 on Labor and Working Conditions
• CHAR is the first liquid market for hashtag#biochar credits.
• Renewable energy for remote communities by International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
• Communicating the business value of sustainability is such an important step in getting leaders on side. Yet research shows that most European companies are struggling to demonstrate the business case for embedding sustainability into their business growth strategy.
• Exploring the Frontier of Electronic Records Examination in URDTT
• The first European climate risk assessment report was released by the European Env.
• Green and sustainable product framework
• Steeering the metropolis
• GOVERNANCE ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK FOR METROPOLITAN, TERRITORIAL AND REGIONAL MANAGEMENT G
• Transport is a crucial part of modern society, connecting communities and fostering development.
• Embedding Sustainability in Every Project Phase: A Strategic Approach to Environmental and Social Risks
• Sustainable signals
• A New Horizon in Sustainable Development: The World Bank Group's Vision
• Sovereign climate and nature reporting
• The SDG hashtag#Project hashtag#Assessment hashtag#Tool (
• 'Water allocation and priority': Worst drought in years could lead to Alberta state of emergency
• Troubled waters
• Raceway Ponds: Lake restorations and eutrophication control through manipulating algal blooms in situ
• Designing Carbon Contracts for Difference
• Surviving 2024: Agribusiness Resilience Strategies
• The ESG Tightrope: Can We Walk the Talk Without Breaking the Bank?
• Blockchains Will Upend Economies of Scale
• The Green Curtain: A Riveting Exploration of the EU's Deforestation Crackdown
• basics of Climate Change & Carbon Market.
• Building a greener EU
• State of Global Environmental Governance 2023
• Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) have adopted a new version of the Guidelines for Climate Target Setting for Banks.
• The purpose of this brief is not to provide global and comprehensive estimates, but rather to investigate available options for an effective bottom-up #assessment of #energyefficiency #investments in #buildings.
• The Saudi Exchange (Tadawul) released their hashtag#ESG disclosure guidelines.
• sustainability standards and frameworks
• Sustainable urbanization
• Environmental Policy-Making; Theory & Practice
• From Seeds to Self-Sufficiency: SunCulture’s Solar-Powered Revolution for Women in Agriculture
• After Delays, EU Approves Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Law
• Global Corporate Sustainability Report
• Sixteen research teams from across Stanford University will explore innovative strategies for gigaton atmospheric greenhouse gas removal – the school’s first ‘Flagship Destination’ research focus
• Used Heavy- Duty Vehicles and the Environment
• andmark Victory for Earth: COP15 Unveiled Four Bold Goals and 23 Targets to Revolutionize Biodiversity by 2030.
• Powering Green Progress: The Hydrogen Wave Transforming Our Future
• Nature's New Currency: Navigating the World of Biodiversity Credits to Combat Environmental Decline.
• Biomimicry: Biomimetic Membrane Filters for Carbon Dioxide Removal
• Verra Releases Version 4.6 of the VCS Standard
• CO2 Emissions in 2023 Report By International Energy Agency
• Financial institutions exposed as oil and gas giants lag on climate targets
• Corporate Climate Finance through Carbon Market
• Human activity is threatening the health of our planet's freshwater resources. As the world’s population grows, clean water has never been more important.

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