#27 - Weekly News Digest 20240708-0714

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:

• Creative Economy Outlook 2024
• hashtag#DigitalEconomy Report 2024
• Protecting the cybersecurity of critical infrastructures and their supply chains
• Why strong regional value chains will be vital to the next chapter of China and Africa’s economic relationship
• How Retailers Became Ad Platforms
• Do you know where your hashtag#chocolate comes from?
• Global trade trends turned positive in the first quarter of 2024, according to the latest Global Trade Update from UN Trade and Development, launched today.

b. Trade Finance:

• WaveBL and the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) are joining forces to revolutionize trust and transparency in global trade shipping!
• The dynamics of document digitisation
• Quand l'offre et la demande de Tradetech à l'international se rencontrent
• Joint ICC-UNECE initiative calls for enhanced global digital trade interoperability
• TradeTech Regulatory Sandbox
• Successful Completion of Electronic Promissory Note Transaction by XDC Trade Network.
• the International Chamber of Commerce and United Nations Economic Commission for Europe issued a powerful call to action to fast-track the worldwide adoption of unified digital trade standards.
• Building on the excellent paper published by the Digital Standards Initiative (trade documents and their readiness for digitization) - we set out some extensions to their analysis to support trade and trade finance, especially in manufacturing supply chains. See our short 3 minute post.
• The significance of MLETR, Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records

c. Sustainability & ESG

• KPMG Launches New Climate Reporting Resources Hub
• ACCELERATING THE TRANSITION: ASSESSING PROGRESS AND DRIVING ACTION
• ReverdeC: The Roots of the World's First Fully Digital Carbon Credits in Colombia
• New in Biodiversity Finance: June 2024
• Covering Germany’s green hydrogen demand: Transport options for enabling imports
• An ocean of opportunities: The potential of seaweed to address food security, environmental sustainability, and gender empowerment
• The Responsible Agricultural Investment Tool for Agribusiness
• Climate true-cost analysis of industrial goods and its regulatory implications on value chains and global competition.
• How maximizing green finance flows to developing countries could tackle global warming
• Joint statement on CII Regulation
• MMMCZCS LCA Methodology for Calculating the GHG Intensity of Maritime Fuels
• he City of Winnipeg demonstrating leadership in taking scientific research and making changes to improve freshwater health with the upgrades to the North East Sewage Treatment Plant.
• The Role of Carbon Credits in Scaling Up Innovative Clean Energy Technologies prepared by the Energy Investment Unit in the Office of the Chief Energy Economist (OCEE) Division of the Directorate of Sustainability, Technology and Outlooks (STO) at the International Energy Agency (IEA) and GenZero explores how high-quality carbon credits could accelerate the adoption of low-emissions hydrogen, sustainable aviation fuels and direct air capture
• Singapore and Lao PDR signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to collaborate on carbon credits on 9 July 2024.
• What Open Forest Protocol Offers the Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM)
• Charting Progress to 1.5°C through Certification
• Webinar: The business case for planting trees
• Scaling Up Hydrogen: The Case for Low-Carbon Methano
• Enhancing the hashtag#efficiency of photovoltaic cells through the usage of dye concentrators by Ewa Brągoszewska Magdalena Bogacka
• ESG AUdits Checklist
• How Smaller Companies Can Join the Circular Economy
• UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)'s Digital Economy Report 2024 underscores the urgent need for environmentally sustainable and inclusive digitalization strategies.
• IFC grants sustainability-linked loan for $150 million to FIBRA Macquarie México
• Green Truth
• IFC Invests in Natura’s Bond to Improve Sourcing of Bioingredients from the Amazon
• https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/virtual-power-plant-market-likely-boost-future-growth-ajit-a-erebc/?trackingId=gkG5bKVls0WOUs%2BooMdNBw%3D%3DVirtual Power Plant Market Likely to Boost Future Growth by 2029
• UNDP Nature for Life - Changing Policies, Changing Lives
• TradeTech Regulatory Sandbox
• The Transformation Agenda
• The latest ESMA Newsletter highlights the Final Report
• Scenarios for Assessing Climate-Related Risks: New Short-Term Scenario Narratives
• Verra has launched a public consultation on an optional pathway for projects registered in the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) Program to (1) update to a new methodology or methodology version for past verification periods and (2) requantify the greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions and carbon dioxide removals from past verification periods in accordance with that methodology.
• ISF report: Canadian wetlands providing hundreds of billions in natural services
• The UK Forest Risk Commodity Regulation ("UKFRC")
• Designing a Macroprudential Capital Buffer for Climate-related Risks
• DG Okonjo-Iweala cites members’ desire to complete unfinished business from MC13
• The European Green Deal, aimed at making the EU climate-neutral by 2050, outlines a comprehensive approach to hashtag#sustainability, requiring profound hashtag#transformation across all hashtag#industrial sectors. Horizon Europe, the EU's foremost hashtag#research and hashtag#innovation programme, can be a critical enabler, providing the necessary hashtag#funding, hashtag#framework and hashtag#innovation pathways to support this transition.
• How to finance EU's growth model amidst global challenges?
• The European innovation scoreboard 2024 is published!
• The European Union has amended the Climate Delegated Act, enhancing the EU Taxonomy for Shipping. T
• OECD Illuminates Egypt's Path to Sustainable and Inclusive Green Growth
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreafrosinini/recent-activity/reactions/#:~:text=The%20IFPRI%202023%20Annual%20Report%20has%20now%20launched!
• Trade and Labour: Rethinking Policy Tools for Better Labour Outcomes,
• Unlocking Private Sector Investment into Natural Climate Solutions in India
• Biochar-poultry manure compost regulates temperature and retains nitrogen during composting, enhancing microbial activity and reducing nutrient loss.
• European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) calls on companies to get data systems in place to meet new CSRD sustainability reporting requirements:
• Coinbase and Greengage partner to revolutionize SME debt financing with blockchain technology
• WTO monitoring shows members acting to facilitate trade despite protectionist pressures
• Introduction to Climate Finance
• The Climate Of Business #127: Food prices up due to climate change, industry turns to solar to reduce costs, climate goals without offsets
• On 5 July, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published two documents to ensure an efficient supervision of hashtag#sustainability information by National Competent Authorities.
• Is climate change impacting chocolate production?
• Invitation to Join Gold Standard’s Carbon Market Training Network
• Swiss government will allow financial institutions to self-regulate greenwashing
• The multilateral system is facing deep challenges from many directions as delegates gather in New York for hashtag#HLPF2024 under the theme “Reinforcing the 2030 Agenda and eradicating poverty in times of multiple crises".
• Impact as a New Commodity: A Global Economic Revolution
• DECARBONISATION OF HEAVY INDUSTRY - A GOOD GROWTH IMPERATIVE
• Net Zero Steel
• How the IFRS Foundation can get you started with the ISSB Standards
• In today's world, climate change is a major concern. We need to take action to reduce our carbon emissions and mitigate the effects of climate change.
• The Economics of Renewable Energy: Main Takeaways and Challenges
• Revolutionizing Steel Production with Calcium Looping and Bio-Coal
• Beyond plastics
• Gold Standard Release Public Carbon Regulations Tracker Supporting the Transition to a More Regulated Market
• Mapping scholarly publications of energy conservation and emission reduction in support of the sustainable development goals (SDGs)
• Better Buildings: Key Drivers for Constructing a Circular Built Environment in the U.S.
• Is Blockchain seeing a resurgence to digitalise Trade and Trade Finance..??
• BIOMASS GASIFICATION FOR HYDROGEN PRODUCTION
• The Climate Change & (In)Security Project are pleased to see ‘Hot War: Climate Change, Conflict and (In)Security’ referenced multiple times in the 2024 edition of NATO Secretary General’s Report
• Reducing Embodied Carbon in Cities report by World Economic Forum
• AI: The Circular Economy's Secret Weapon
• Understanding and mitigating insider risks is crucial for maintaining organizational integrity and security.
• 2025 European Supervisory Examination Programme
• hashtag#Kigali, Rwanda, faces pressing climate hazards, notably flash floods and landslides, exacerbated by the city's rugged topography and rapid urban expansion.
• Honda, Mazda, Nissan complete 1st phase of web3 global battery passport MVPhttps://www.ledgerinsights.com/honda-mazda-nissan-complete-1st-phase-of-web3-global-battery-passport-mvp/

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