#25 - Weekly News Digest 20240624-0630

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:

• Did you know biodiversity is greater in the hashtag#Tropics than any other place on Earth?

• Canadian Mining Industry Facts and Figures

• Exploring Data Governance in Africa: A New Era for Digital Transformation

• Transforming Global Food Systems: Insights from UNDP

• Turning Challenges into Sustainable Solutions: The New Era of Industrial Policy

• Trade and Labour: Rethinking Policy Tools for Better Labour Outcomes

b. Trade Finance:

• Over the decades, the share of oil in global maritime trade has significantly declined, giving way to a rise in the shipment of dry bulk and manufactured goods.

• Digitalisation of the Certificate of Origin (CO)

• Transformative Change in Trade Finance!

• UBS Group has stated it will refund a substantial portion of investments to investors in Credit Suisse funds connected to the Greensill Capital collapse, addressing the legacy issues of its former competitor.

• Digital Implications of Detecting Fraud in Trade Finance

• EU Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR)

• EBRD and ICC host conference on digitalising international trade in Morocco

• New report forecasts $30.1tn tokenisation market by 2034

• Peru hub logistics

• Singapore and Ghana have successfully completed the first proof of concept that is aimed at boosting trade by electronically verifying the identity of small and medium enterprises (SME).

• Standard Chartered predicts the tokenization market to soar to $30.1 trillion by 2034, with trade finance playing a significant role.

• UNCITRAL -- UNIDROIT MODEL LAW ON WAREHOUSE RECEIPTS ADOPTED

• IFC Supports SeABank to Issue Viet Nam’s First Blue Bond, Boost Climate Finance

• Operational Vessel Schedules standard

• Exploring the ESG Impact of Payment Instruments

• Correcting the Record on USTR’s Trade Policies

• Revitalising Services Trade for Global Growth - Evidence from Ten Years of Monitoring Services Trade Policies Through the OECD Services Trade Restrictiveness Index (STRI)

• A Shift Towards Efficiency and Accuracy - AI and OCR Technologies in Customs

c. Sustainability & ESG

• Renewable Energy Resources

• Handbook of Sustainable Energy

• MAKING NET-ZERO AMMONIA POSSIBLE

• mbracing Resilience through Climate Finance

• Sustainable Finance in the EU!

• Governing Net Zero: assessing convergence and gaps in the voluntary standards and guidelines landscape report

• Navigating hashtag#Governance hashtag#Frameworks for hashtag#GenerativeAI Systems in e hashtag#AsiaPacific

• The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2024

• Urban renewal isn’t just about sprucing up neighborhoods—it’s a game-changer that can push forward 15 of the 17 SDGs and hit more than 45 specific targets

• First-year field trials show biochar application boosts grassland yields by 16% and increases soil carbon and nitrogen by 51% and 22% respectively. Conducted by Black Bull Biochar, SRU

• Exploring the Unforeseen, and Paving the Way to a hashtag#Sustainable Future

• Are synthetic fuels the key to unlocking growth in hydrogen

• Halting forest loss

• ECB sets climate targets for its corporate bonds

• The Rise and Fall of Carbon Markets: Lessons from Four Decades of Climate Policy

• Exploring the Future of ESG in Real Estate: Insights from the Latest Mapping Report

• The science of sustainable development

• ntroduction to Life Cycle Assessment in hydrogen Production

• ACCELERATING TRANSITION TOWARDS A CIRVULAR ECONOMY

• What to Expect at HLPF 2024

• How is the EU performing in innovation?

• CCUS IN THE INDIAN CEMENT INDUSTRY A REVIEW OF CO2 HUBS AND STORAGE FACILITIES

• Gold Standard's Updated Net Zero Framework

• Mooted global treaty could give bill of lading a major upgrade

• Strategic agenda 2024–2029

• From Financial Stability to Price Stability in Sustainable Central Banking

• Will Chinese Auto Export Boom Transform into Local Production in Europe

• The first datasets of The World Bank Group’s new scorecard, just released

• The World Economic Forum (WEF) has published an insightful report on Responsible AI.

• Transforming hashtag#Cities with hashtag#Clean hashtag#Air hashtag#Zones

• Sustainable Fuels for Shipping by 2050

• Natural processes and buman impact

• Denmark to target flatulent livestock with tax in bid to fight climate change

• net zero standards at London Climate Action Week!

• ENERGY & MINES DIGITAL TRUST: THE FUTURE OF GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAINS

• For today's hashtag#MSMEday, we celebrate 60 years and almost two months of the International Trade Centre (United Nations/World Trade Organization

• New Agreement Marks First Step in Addressing Energy Charter Treaty Legacy

• Global Synergy: Pioneering Transition Finance for a Sustainable Future

• FORESIGHT AFRICA TOP PRIORITIES FOR THE CONTINENT IN 2024

• World Trade Organization Talks on Subsidies that Contribute to Overcapacity and Overfishing: What's on the table?

• Digital Technologies: The Key to Combating Climate Change

• Global Availability of Biogenic Carbon Dioxide and Implications for Maritime Decarbonization

• How Digital & Green Corridors are Revolutionising Global Maritime Trade

• Biomimicry: Carbonic Anhydrase and Carbon Dioxide for Enhanced Pollutant Removal in Wastewater Treatment Raceway Ponds

• Statistical of World Energy

• The Deutsche Bundesbank's latest climate-related disclosure marks a pioneering move by including an environmental impact analysis of its gold reserves, a first for any central bank.

• Empowering Utilities for the Energy Transition: Key Insights from the World Bank Report

• Prudence, Profits, and Growth

• Analyzing the Surge in Green Bond Issuance

• https://www.ft.com/content/ee5186f4-1ecb-4f5a-93d2-e4f7ab57a35d#:~:text=Add%20to%20myFT-,Green%20bond%20issuance%20surges%20as%20investors%20hunt%20for%20yield,-Sustainable%20debt%20raises

• International Standards for Sustainable Infrastructure: An overview

• IFC and DANIDA Launch Bangladesh Climate Advisory Partnership to Drive Climate-Smart Investments

• Green Truth Time

• Gender Equality and Social Inclusion SUNCASA

• Gold Standard scope 3 emissions

• Embracing Complexity

• New Report Highlights Innovative Governance for Just Energy Transition

• A systematic literature review on positive energy buildings

• The European hashtag#CRCF regulation suggests that carbon credits from sustainable forest management and reforestation/afforestation projects are of lower quality than those that will be generated by technologies.

• Bundesbank includes gold analysis in latest climate disclosures

• Roundup: Carney says UK no longer net-zero leader and should accelerate mandatory reporting

• The Green Leader: Using AI to Drive Sustainability Initiatives

• Natural infrastructure for water solutions on the Canadian Prairies

• Small Grants, Big Impact: Meet the 2024 Recipients Driving Change with Global Forest Watch

• EU Launches First “Net-Zero Academy” to Train 100,000 Workers for Climate Tech Value Chain

• Japan makes a late play on under-fire carbon credit trading

• The Government of Australia’s Treasury department released its Sustainable Finance Roadmap.

• Bonn climate talks: Key outcomes from the June 2024 UN climate conference

• Harnessing Digital Technologies for Climate Adaptation: Opportunities for Social Investors

• "Scope 3 Upstream- Big challenges, Simple Remedies" was released by CDP and Boston Consulting Group (BCG).

• Adaptation and mitigation strategies for climate change

• Innovation, infrastructure financing and trade can help the UNECE region to revive SDG progress

• British International Investment and Citi launch $100 million risk-sharing facility to support trade finance in frontier and emerging African economies

• Climate Change Laws of the World

• Biocarbon / biochar / torrefied biomass production and applications

• World Bank Group Gender Strategy 2024 – 2030: Accelerate Gender Equality to End Poverty on a Livable Planet

• The Evolution of Green Finance with the Philosophy of Islamic Finance

• Handbook of climate change adaptation

• https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/impact-banking-new-paradigm-private-capital-finance-a7xjc/?trackingId=5Gah8JkI4ULP4KBWGc9XcA%3D%3D

• An interesting long-read from The New York Times on the hashtag#WallStreet approach to climate investing. Do you agree?

• New Report Highlights Innovative Governance for Just Energy Transition

• Urban Nature-Based Solutions

• 6 shades of greenwashing

• 2024 State of the European Hydrogen Marke

• Utilities for Climate (U4C) Initiative

• Probably the most urgent problem of this century is the change the climate on earth will undergo. Therefore it is of the highest importance to reduce hashtag#human hashtag#impact on these emerging changes

• BLOOM

• 3 actions we can all take to help support decent work for all & promote economic growth

• De-risking: The Key to Sustainable Economic Transformation in a Multipolar World

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

• Nov 19-21, 2024: Future of Freight Festival, Chattanooga, TN

• Feb 10-12, 2025: Manifest, Las Vegas, NV