#13 - Weekly News Digest 20240331-0407
- Andrea Frosinini
- Alicia Noel
Owned by Andrea Frosinini
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:
- Supply Chain Dive: Baltimore preps small, temporary channel for essential vessel transit
- The Human Side of Digitalization in Shipping, Freight, and Logistics
- Enabling Data-Driven Innovation : Learning from Korea’s Data Policies and Practices for Harnessing AI | World Bank
- Leveraging IoT and electronic Bills of Lading (eBLs), we champion smarter container operations, enhancing efficiency and laying the groundwork for the shipping industry's next evolution.
- The future of global trade: UNCTAD announces first-ever Global Supply Chain Forum
- FORESIGHT AFRICA - TOP PRIORITIES FOR THE CONTINENT IN 2024
- DIGITAL TWIN Architectures, Networks, and Applications
- IoT Commercial Events Standard documentation
- Digitization, Trust and SMEs
- Business Model–the Perspective of Systems Thinking and Innovation
- WTO’s “Global Trade Outlook and Statistics” report indicates positive movement amid challenges
- Ensuring access to safe, nutritious, and affordable food should never be a pressing concern.
b. Trade Finance:
- New legislative step concerning the transposition of the MLETR into French law
- The impacts of ISO 20022 on transaction banking
- FCI Launch MENA Regional Committee
- A public/private collaboration to modernise cross border payments.
- DBS has become the first bank in Southeast Asia to join a global trade programme run by the International Finance Corporation, in a US$500mn deal to support trade in emerging markets.
- ComBank joins forces with IFC to enhance SCF in Sri Lanka
- In some regions, the conversation is relatively straightforward. But in the case of Africa, the challenge of integrating ESG principles is not a simple one.
- ITFA introduces MARA as industry standard framework for open account distribution
- Absa to open China office, eyes trade revenue boost
- The glass of milk half-empty? Dairy development and nutrition in low and middle income countries
- IFC Portfolio- Default rate analysis
- Zoth Raises $2.5 Million in Funding to Provide Sustainable RWA-Backed Yields
c. Sustainability & ESG
- The Poultry Site: Morrisons eggs achieve the first UK carbon neutral certification
- The Latest in ESG and Stewardship Regulation – April 2024
- New Climate Scenarios for Reporting and Risk Management Webinar Recap
- Why is nature important for institutional investors?
- Sowing the Seeds of Sustainability: Blockchain’s Role in Cultivating a Safer Food Future
- hashtag#globalforestwatch just published analysis on 2023 deforestation
- IISD released report on monitoring green public procurement
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/manaadiar_the-human-side-of-digitalization-in-shipping-activity-7181610126997393409-d0yH?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
- IEA PV Power System Task 12 PV Sustainability Activities released a report "Status of PV Module Take-Back and Recycling in Germany ".
- KEY INDICATORS FOR ASIA AND THE PACIFIC 2023
- DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION FOR INCLUSIVE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN ASIA
- Global Energy Outlook 2024: Peaks or Plateaus?
- Energy Transitions in Hisotry
- Green is the new gold: Investors flock to sustainable opportunities in 2024
- Linking quality of life and climate change adaptation through the use of the macro-adaptation resilience toolkit
- Global Energy Outlook 2024: Peaks or Plateaus?
- Management hashtag#Challenges for Business in hashtag#DigitalEconomy:
- Verra's hashtag#Scope3 Standard (S3S) Program is calling for proposals to help unlock immediate and large-scale investment in supply chain climate action.
- Innovation and Adaptation in the Climate Crisis: Technology for the New Normal | World Economic Forum
- ZERO WASTE CITY MANUAL
- Developments in the Hydrogen Market!
- ESMA Newsletter focused in February and March on the EU Green Bonds and our extensive activity on the Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation hashtag#MiCA.
- GOVERNMENT TRENDS 2024
- Regional Cooperation and Integration Publications List
- Sustainable agrifood systems in the Mediterranean
- REINVIGORATING FINANCING APPROACHES FOR SUSTAINABLE AND RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE IN ASEAN
- What are the digital dividends?
- Tracking COP28 Outcomes - Tripling RE capacity by 2030
- Paris Maligned II: Climate alignment assessments reveal oil and gas company transition risk exposure
- The Government of India released the Energy Statistics India 2024.
- he Vital Role of Critical Raw Materials in the EU's Strategic Technologies and Sectors
- The State of Sustainable Business Compendium
- Circularity Plus: Accelerating Waste-to-Value Solutions
- Carbon credits for 'avoided breathing'? Malaysian freediving school pioneers new offset plan
- Business Models and Sustainable Development Goals
- Scaling Carbon Markets
- Foresight Scenarios for the EU bioeconomy in 2050
- COMMON FRAMEWORK OF SUSTAINABLE FINANCE TAXONOMIES
- https://dcsa.org/standards/track-and-trace/documentation-iot-commercial-events?utm_source=linkedin&utm_campaign=&utm_medium=MT-organic-social-2024&utm_content=march
- enewable Capacity Statistics 2024
- The Role of Carbon Markets in Transitions
- Measuring the Emissions & Energy Footprint of the ICT Sector: Implications for Climate Action
- CITIES AND CLIMATE CHANGE Responding to an Urgent Agenda
- How SBTN’s consultation process shapes science-based targets for nature
- #Seoul Solution for hashtag#UrbanDevelopment
- Beyond Profit: Envisioning a Sustainable and Socially Responsible Society 6.0
- EU policies for climate neutrality in the decisive decade
- Carbon industry watchdog approves first ‘high-integrity’ credit certifiers in bid for market confidence
- Design and Place SEPP Overview
- Synchronizing energy transitions toward possible Net Zero for India: Affordable and clean energy for all
- Renewable Energy Desalination
- he dry sky: future scenarios for humanity's modification of the atmospheric water cycle
- The Economics of Renewable Energy
- Restoring the earth’s damaged temperature regulation is the fastest way out of the climate crisis. Cooling the planet with plants
- UK government launches latest RLS
- IFC Boosts Romania’s Green Transition with Two Key Projects
- Machine vision — technofix or smallholder solution for deforestation-free coffee?
- Climate adaptation finance must double by 2025. How will that happen?
- The Adaptation Principles A Guide for Designing Strategies for Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience
- Navigating Complexity in Food Systems: From Clockwork To Cloudwork
- Expert review of the science underlying nature-based climate solutions
- The Water–Energy–Food (WEF) nexus
- Enhancing Biodiversity Co-Benefits From Nature-Based Solutions
- Draft Urban Design Guide
- The 2024 Global Commons Stewardship (GCS) Index
- The Resilience, Adaptation and Transformation Assessment Framework: from theory to application
- DESIGN GUIDE FOR HEALTH
- What is green infrastructure?
- Variable Royalties for Mineral Price Volatility in the Energy Transition
- ReFi: Eco-Friendly Blockchains
- Beyond Value Chain Mitigation webinar 27 March 2024
- Unlocking Nature's Potential: The Science Behind Nature-Based Climate Solutions
- Unlocking the Power of Nature: A Deep Dive into Science-Backed Climate Solutions
- New World Bank Group Scorecard FY24-FY30 : Driving Action, Measuring Results (English)
- CarbonChain Comply launched: A new update for carbon reporting SaaS for metals and energy
- World Bank Group Announces New Approach to Measuring Impact
- Guidance Document on Integrating Coral Reefs and Associated Ecosystems into National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans
- Bull in the Climate Shop
- The European Commission has approved, a €350 million German scheme to support the production of renewable hydrogen through the European Hydrogen Bank's “Auctions-as-a-Service” tool
- Financing for Sustainable Development Report 2024
- Funding Beyond Value Chain Mitigation
- Introducing "Goals and Strategies of Society 5.0: Japan’s Pioneering Vision for a Sustainable Future"
- Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor 2023
Events:
- Apr 3-5: NFT-NYC
- Apr 4: Meral Sengoz of T3i Partner Network on Blockchain Experiences for Export Transactions in Turkey
- Apr 16-18: Linux Foundation Open Source Summit North America, Seattle Washington. Includes a "SupplyChainSecurityCon" track.
- Apr 18: Hyperledger Supply Chain & Trade Finance SIG - Project Planning
- May 2: Hyperledger Supply Chain & Trade Finance SIG - SIG Member & The Giving Chain CEO Bobbi 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