#15 - Weekly News Digest 20240415-0421

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:

• Inc.: 4 Supply Chain Innovations Improving the Customer Experience: How companies are using technology to enhance supply chain operations and satisfy customers
• Consumer Goods: General Mills Expanding Generative AI in Procurement Amid Shift to Always-On Supply Chain
• Chain Store Age: Survey: Supply chain leaders continue automation efforts
• Trade and development report update
• Co-Developing a Digital Supply Chain Management Suite
• Trade and Tech

b. Trade Finance:

• Revolutionising agricultural finance through blockchain
• Scaling the use of digital identities in trade
• Navigating the future: How CargoX is transforming African trade with Blockchain
• Final report of Key Trade Documents and Data Elements (KTDDE) ready to be launched
• Harnessing Legal Entity Identifiers: Powering Cross-Border Trade with Transparency and Efficiency
• Streamlined Global Commerce: The Role of Digital Assets

c. Sustainability & ESG

• Communicating the climate From Knowing Change to Changing Knowledge
• Hydrogen refueling stations powered by hybrid PV/wind renewable energy systems: Techno-socio-economic assessment
• WORLD ENERGY ISSUES MONITOR 2024
• The Adaptation Principles: A Short Guide for Designing Strategies for Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience
• Green City 2018 / 1 Transformations in Environment and Society Explorations and Visions of Urban Sustainability
• First Carbon Dioxide Removal and Storage Methodology Approved by Gold Standard
• Advancing Towards a Greener Future: The Path to Decarbonizing Global Shipping
• [Consequences of exclusion strategies 3/4]
• Mapping Innovations: Patents and the Sustainable Development Goals | World Intellectual Property Organization
• The dependence of the amount of energy obtained by solar cells on the temperature of the environment
• Water is more valuable than oil’: the corporation cashing in on America’s drought
• Finastra today announced that it has integrated AI-powered ESG scoring capabilities into its working capital solution, Trade Innovation.
• Exploratory Group on Funding Beyond Value Chain Mitigation (BVCM)
• European Union 8th Environment Action Programme Monitoring Report (2023 edition).
• Microalgae-Based In-Situ Bioremediation for Climate-Resilient Wastewater Treatment and Enhanced Water Creditworthiness
• GUIDELINES FOR HIGH INTEGRITY USE OF CARBON CREDITS
• Green Building in Jordan
• Food producers and net zero: a review of progress
• Charting the Path: SAF Ecosystem in Japan
• Global report report 2024'. Highlights:
• Nuclear energy for net zero
• Cities of Tomorrow
• Adaptation & Resilience Impact A measurement framework for investors
• OUR FUTURE PLEDGE
• Border Carbon Adjustments: Pivotal design choices for policy-makers
• Weighted Average Green Revenue (WAGR): A Game-Changer in Portfolio Construction
• Investing in a thriving future for all
• Reductions, Removals, and the Delicate Dance of Carbon Accounting
• The Role of Carbon Credits in Scaling Up Innovative Clean Energy Technologies How high-quality carbon credits could accelerate the adoption of low-emissions hydrogen, sustainable aviation fuels and direct air capture
• The Importance of the Suez Canal for Global Energy Flow
• From Net-Coal to Net-Zero: Australian States and Territories’ Path towards a Low-Carbon Economy
• Strengthening Climate Finance Delivery: The Path from Brazil’s G20 Presidency to COP3
• Countdown to EUDR compliance
• GLOBAL TRENDS TO 2040: CHOOSING EUROPE’S FUTURE
• Smart City Strategy Vienna
• Charting the Path to Well-Being Society 6.0: Beyond the Neoliberal Crisis Towards Sustainable Social Responsibility
• Southeast Asia’s Green Economy 2024 Report
• A Layered Approach to Boosting Sustainability Competence and Motivation
• South Asia Development Update | World Bank Group
• Nature Finance Focus: Tracking global investment in nature
• Unleashing the Catalytic Power of Donor Financing to Achieve SDG 2
• PLAN AND DESIGN STRATEGIC DENSITY INTEGRATED GUIDELINES FOR SUSTAINABLE NEIGHBOURHOOD DESIGN
• Fostering a Resilient Future: The Critical Role of Finance in Climate Adaptation
• ESG Risk Landscape-Global Perspectives and Insights
• Well-Being Society 6.0: A Core Component of Sustainable Socially Responsible Society
• South Asia Development Update- Jobs for Resilience
• How to avoid Greenwashing?
• Decarbonize and create value: How incumbents can tackle the steep challenge
• IFC and Japan grant final tranche of green financing package for US$400 million to BBVA to promote sustainable construction in Peru
• A Manual for Integrated Urban Flood Management in China
• Nature-Based Solutions for Cities
• The State of ReFi A Closer Look at Web3 Regenerative Finance
• GLOBAL FINANCIAL STABILITY REPORT The Last Mile: Financial Vulnerabilities and Risks
• Carbon Capture for Steel?
• Australia, Singapore embark on $20M initiative to reduce maritime emissions
• Green AI: How Artificial Intelligence Can Solve Sustainability Challenges?
• Resilience by Design Metropoolregio Amsterdam
• First Carbon Dioxide Removal and Storage Methodology Approved by Gold Standard: A Leap Forward for Climate Action
• Southern Africa drought: Impacts on maize production
• opper’s Price Breakout and Big Role in a Net Zero World.
• INC-4 is an Opportunity to Address Fresh Water Pollution – This is How
• Global Greenwashing Regulations: How the World Is Cracking Down on Misleading Sustainability Claims
• SUSTAINABLE URBAN PLANNING PRINCIPLES
• METHODOLOGY for COLLECTION AND COMPUTATION OF LIVEABILITY STANDARDS IN CITIES
• IFC, BNP Paribas Bank Polska Launch SRT Transaction to Increase Climate Finance in PolandHarmonising AI And Sustainability: A Blueprint For Greener FutureSmart Sustainable Cities Reconnaissance Study
• The Value of the EU Battery Passport’
• Enterprise Risk Management , Applying enterprise risk management to ESG-related risks by WBCSD – World Business Council for Sustainable Development
• Verra's Plastic Waste Reduction Program (Plastic Program)
• Green Hydrogen for Decarbonizing Asia’s Industrial Giants
• Copenhagen SOLUTIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE CITIES
• Specification for Oil and Gas Separators
• Model-based Financial Regulations Impair the Transition to Net-zero Carbon Emissions
• OECD Steps Up Mineral Pricing Guidance Amid Clean Energy Push
• VCMI and GenZero Strengthen Collaboration to Advance High-Integrity Market Mechanisms
• Debating sustainable agriculture: Weed management and crop biotechnology

Events:

• 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
• Sept 29-Oct. 2: CSCMP’s EDGE Supply Chain Conference & Exhibition, Nashville, TN