#24 - Weekly News Digest 20240617-0623

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:

• he 2024 World Investment Report
• Food systems transformation: Making healthy diets affordable
• USTR’s Revisionist History on Data and Trade Agreements
• European Union's Strategic Move Towards Sustainable Cobalt Processing in the DRC
• FTA Confidential: The Insider Exposé on Applying for a Customs Ruling on FTA Rules of Origin
• Harnessing Emerging Technologies for Agrifood Systems Transformation
• The Plants That Feed the World
• Are you ready to unlock the full potential of circular logistics?
• Why is food systems transformation stuck? UNDP’s latest blog looks at four key dimensions of change.

b. Trade Finance:

• Our latest newsletter offers a detailed update on our push to drive digitalisation across the container shipping industry.
• Transforming Trade Finance with AI | Helping Banks & Trading Firms Reduce Costs by 50% | Speaker & Thought Leader in Digital Trade Finance
• Bank for International Settlements – BIS, Jermy Prenio, “Peering through the hype – assessing suptech tools’ transition from experimentation to supervision”
• Within the container shipping industry, collaboration is crucial for accuracy and visibility into cargo movement across supply chain operations.
• A comparative analysis of e hashtag#ESG impact of hashtag#payment instruments

c. Sustainability & ESG

• FOSTERING EFFECTIVE ENERGY TRANSITION
• #Europe hashtag#Sustainable hashtag#Development report 2024
• Are you at the hashtag#nbsconferenceoxford hosted by the Nature-Based Solutions Initiative?
• The Critical Link:
• he new strategy for Sustainable Food and Agricultural Commodity Systems (FACS) is here, aiming to revolutionize global food systems by 2030.
• Financing Green Hydrogen in India
• hashtag#NatureBasedSolutions are increasingly recognized as cost-effective means of reducing vulnerabilities to hashtag#climatechange, strengthening adaptation action, and protecting biodiversity.
• Harnessing the power of digital technologies for climate adaptation: The opportunity for social investors’. Summary:
• Traversing the Climate Technology Scale Gap
• Tackling the Plastics Crisis: Key Insights from GreenBiz
• hashtag#Ammonia is emerging as a key player in the hashtag#transition to hashtag#sustainable energy systems, offering significant hashtag#potential for reducing hashtag#CO2 hashtag#emissions and facilitating the adoption of hashtag#renewable energy sources.
• Reforms to the International Financial Architecture
• CCUS: Paving the Way to a Net Zero Europe
• Integrity Council Announces First High-Integrity CCP-Labeled Carbon Credits
• Overview of progress towards the hashtag#SDGs in an EU context 2024 edition via Eurostat
• ntroducing the New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance!
• Emerging market sovereigns more than tripled the annual amount of green, social, sustainability bond issuances in the last 3 years.
• News in the Field of Green Hydrogen Production!
• he ESG credentials of many sustainability-linked bonds are weak, says a new report from the Climate Bonds Initiative.
• : Building forward better by transforming to new, hashtag#clean, hashtag#safe, hashtag#healthy and hashtag#inclusive hashtag#mobility and hashtag#transport
• To support sustainable textile manufacturing and improve the sector's resource efficiency in hashtag#Bangladesh and hashtag#India
• Mapping ESG
• Transforming the electronic equipment industry can help accelerate industrial decarbonization in the US today.
• Unlocking Africa's Low-Carbon Future through Carbon Trading
• The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) undertook a Members’ survey in 2023 to gain a better understanding of the upcoming Nationally Determined Contributions ( NDC ) submissions to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) specifically in the hashtag#energy sector component.
• Project Viridis - A climate risk platform for financial authorities
• hashtag#Urban hashtag#Regeneration for localizing the hashtag#Sustainable hashtag#Development hashtag#Goals
• Global hashtag#plastic hashtag#waste crisis and hashtag#urban hashtag#solutions
• NAVIGATING CLIMATE RISKS - Progress and Challenges in U.S. Insurance Sector Disclosures
• Enhancing Supervision for Sustainable Finance
• Swiss Government Allows Financial Sector to Self-Regulate Greenwashing Prevention
• Scaling Up Hydrogen: The Case for Low Carbon Methano
• Avoided emissions & Sustainable finance
• Decarbonising the Iron and Steel Industry: Main Takeaways and Challenges
• Levelised Cost of Hydrogen | LCOH Calculator Manual
• Mobilising hashtag#privatecapital towards hashtag#mitigation of, and hashtag#adaptation to, environmental change is vital.
• Sustainable Development Report 2024
• Plotting from Above: Enhancing Agricultural Mapping in Asia and the Pacific
• FUTURE GREEN ENERGY
• How sustainable is your plate?
• NAVIGATING CLIMATE RISKS - Progress and Challenges in U.S. Insurance Sector Disclosures

Events:

• Sept 9-11, 2024: ASCM Connect 2024, Austin, TX
• Sept 16-18: Linux Foundation Open Source Summit Europe, Vienna, Austria. Includes a "SupplyChainSecurityCon" track.
• Sept 29-Oct. 2, 2024: CSCMP’s EDGE Supply Chain Conference & Exhibition, Nashville, TN
• Feb 10-12, 2025: Manifest, Las Vegas, NV