#17 - Weekly News Digest 20240429-0505

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:

• Wall Street Journal: Insurer to Make $350 Million Payout in Baltimore Bridge Collapse

• Tripwire: Defending Against Supply Chain Spoofing in Critical Manufacturing

• Supply and Demand Chain Executive: The Dali Ship Collison & the Future of Baltimore’s Supply Chain

• The USAID Digital Ecosystem Country Assessment for the Pacific is out!

• Monthly Intelligence Report

• Food Security Update Highlights:

• Food losses in international trade : case studies from Asia and the Pacific

• EU Digital Identity Framework

• Digital Product Passport (DPP)

• Virtual Watch Tower prototype introduced in Singapore

• Global Rice Shortage Looms: How Export Bans & Weather Changes Threaten Prices.

• Cotton: Unlocking the secrets of a global giant (and exciting news!)

• AgriScience and Technology

b. Trade Finance:

• Digital negotiable instruments Ideally suited to combating late payment

• Bridging the Gap: Integrating Digital Solutions into Traditional Commodity Trade Finance

• Hopes for interoperability as DSI finalises digital trade document standards

• Revolutionising agricultural finance through blockchain

• DIGITIAL TRADE GAP ASSESSMENT

• hashtag#GTR: hashtag#ESG and hashtag#trade: What does #2024 hold?

• TRADE TECH - The hashtag#digitalization of hashtag#trade procedures hinges on the most impactful class of hashtag#tradetech... the hashtag#SingleWindow

• DTC 2024: Post-ETDA Landscape: How can the legal environment further facilitate digital trade?

c. Sustainability & ESG

• Supply Chain Dive: How Cotopaxi navigated remediation of a tier 1 supplier

• Strategic Environmental Assessment for the Mining Sector: Lessons from country case studies

• MONITORING THE TRANSITION TO A LOWCARBON ECONOMY

• Beyond Green: The Arts as a Catalyst for Sustainability

• Revolutionizing Sustainability: European Union's New Ecodesign Rules Set to Transform Consumer Products

• Global economic fracturing and shifting investment patterns

• Two decades of action and a singular success: The Western and Central Pacific Ocean is now the only major ocean area where all tuna stocks are harvested sustainably

• nternational Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB)'s

• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/akshat-sharma01_esrs-issb-standards-interoperability-guidance-ugcPost-7191796495736528897-MDje?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

• Summary report, 23–29 April 2024

• Creating a treaty on plastics has felt like the David vs Goliath tale

• Pricing the priceless: Lessons for biodiversity credits from carbon markets

• Unleashing the Catalytic Power of Donor Financing for Sustainable Development Goal 2

• Green cities of Europe

• Ready to Earn Solar Panel Carbon Credits

• Nature Risk Climbs Agenda With Potential 12% Hit To UK GDP

• When a fossil fuel company claims to sell "net zero oil", is this a sign of climate action or an oxymoron?

• Klarna Boosts Climate Fund with $2M as It Unveils New CO2 Removal Innovators to Receive Funding and Doubles Its Internal Carbon Tax

• uidelines for High Integrity Use of Carbon Credits."

• Agritech: Shaping Agriculture in Emerging Economies, Today and Tomorrow

• Regenerative Finance (ReFi) is a movement to realign our economic, social, and ecological wellbeing.

• NACOF OORJA Launches SPV for Sustainable Farming in India

• Bridging Indigenous Forest Conservation and Economic Sustainability

• Raceway pond construction using myco-based green building materials for sustainable microalgae-based wastewater treatment.

• How blockchains could support a more scalable way for climate finance

• The Blockchain for the UN Charter Values and the SDGs Action Plan

• UN CC:Learn at COP28 of the UNFCCC

• ISSB Publishes Digital Taxonomy for Sustainability Disclosures

• Nature Positive: Role of the Cement and Concrete Sector

• The Green Transition and Inflation in the Euro Area

• Klarna boosts climate fund with $2m as it unveils new CO2 removal innovators to receive funding and doubles its internal carbon tax

• First Home Food Recycling Methodology for Carbon Emissions Reductions

• ESG Performance Chartbook: Industrials, Financials, & Real Estate

• Why the forest carbon market is bouncing back

• Policy tools for better labour outcomes

• Exciting Insights from the Asia-Pacific Countries with Special Needs Development Report 2024!

• Climate finance at World Bank and IMF spring meetings 2024

• Emissions Trading and Carbon Markets

• Artificiality and hashtag#Sustainability in hashtag#Entrepreneurship

• From Blueprints to Green prints: The impact of carbon pricing on sustainable construction

• Exploring gender roles and women’s empowerment in the coffee value chain and coffee cooperatives: Evidence from Mexico

• Debunking the False Dichotomy: Development and Climate Finance Are One and the Same

• Energy Transition and Geopolitics: Are Critical Minerals the New Oil?

• Strategic environmental assessment (SEA) can help governments tackle the big mining-sector issues that cannot be addressed with project-level approaches like ESIA.

• Invitation to Apply: REDD Methodologies Working Group

• Energy transition at centre of discussions in environment committee and thematic session

• This hashtag#book was commissioned by the Department of hashtag#Ethics, hashtag#Equity, hashtag#Trade and hashtag#Human Rights as part of the work undertaken by the Priority hashtag#PublicHealth Conditions Knowledge Network of the Commission on hashtag#Social hashtag#Determinants of hashtag#Health, in collaboration with 16 of the major public health programmes of hashtag#WHO

• CSRD Explaied

• Architects of UN carbon market must not sacrifice human rights in the interest of speed

• GEOPOLITICS OF THE ENERGY TRANSITION ENERGY SECURITY

• hashtag#Decarbonising rice cultivation through hashtag#insetting

• Saudi Arabia Is Expected to Raise Its Oil Prices to Asia to a 5-Month High

• Debunking the False Dichotomy: Development and Climate Finance Are One and the Same

• Exploring New Frontiers in Sustainability: Insights from Bob Gravestijn's Latest Articles

• Japan Steps Up on Sustainability: Launches Consultation on International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB)-Based Disclosure Standards

• In the rush to decarbonize, the shipping industry is exploring alternative fuels

• Decoding Article 6 of the Paris Agreement VERSION II

• 12 INSIGHTS ON HYDROGEN FOR BRAZIL

• Energy storage, encompassing the storage not only of hashtag#electricity but also of hashtag#energy in various forms such as hashtag#chemicals

• Empowering Growth: Expanding LEI Adoption in Emerging Markets | First day – 2

• Feasibility of Green Ammonia Trading: Cases of Europe, North Africa, and South America

• Making Innovation Policy Work for Development | World Intellectual Property Organization

• CIX Approach to Quality

• SSFA Carbon Markets

• #Greenwashing, whereby companies make themselves appear more hashtag#environmentally friendly than they really are, has become a many-headed beast

• Natural Capital and Why it Matters to Investors

• A new report from our team looking at natural infrastructure successes from the City of Nelson, Halifax Regional Municipality, and EPCOR

• Green marine: decarbonising the shipping sector

• Industrial Decarbonization: Assessing Potential Options

• Nature conservation works, and we’re getting better at it – new study

• Pollination outlines in this report the steps corporates can take to respond to the hashtag#nature-positive agenda and "remain competitive in their changing operating environment"

• Transforming our World in the Digital Age

• hashtag#Naturebased avoidance hashtag#carboncredits - are we 'throwing the baby out with the bathwater?'

• Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has just released the Annual Sustainability Report—From Bold Ideas to Exponential Impact with great insights from Christoph Schweizer and David Webb.

• Understanding Natural Capital and Its Significance for Investors

• This is the year to get the Sustainable Development Goals back on track

• Sustainable Land Management Sourcebook

• Factsheet Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

• Scaling Carbon Dioxide Removal: Pioneering a New Gigaton Industry

• Breaking Down the Social Approach to Smart Cities Transition on LinkedIn

• Low Carbon Hydrogen Well-to-Tank Pathways Study

• CarbonEmissionToken Protocol Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC) InterWork Alliance

• Rating Report April 2024

• Climate Change Risk Management Process Guidance

• Regenerative Finance (ReFi): A New Paradigm for Climate Action and Economic Transformation

• Sustainable Aviation Fuel | Prospects

• The New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance (NCQG)

• Decarbonising hard-to-abate sectors with renewables: Perspectives for the G7.

• Ministerial Meeting of the OECD Council in Paris on May 2-3, 2024.

• G-20 ZeroCarbon Policy Scoreboard 2024

• Building a people-centered digital future for cities and communities

• The Global Atlas for Renewable Energy | International Renewable Energy Agency -

• State of the Climate in Asia 2023

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