#30 - Weekly News Digest 20240729-0804

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:

• Major Milestone for E-commerce Trade
• Global dataset reveals the hidden costs of international trade and transport.

b. Trade Finance:

• Trade data policy tracker
• Only 7% of Customs Administrations Have Reached Transformational Innovation – Not Enough for the Digital World, is it?
• BIC is proud to support the ongoing maintenance of UN/LOCODES, having taken on the UN/LOCODE maintenance meeting convenorship role for over 4 years.
• Efforts to digitally transform the maritime and shipping industry are being carried out earnestly around the world with several organisations pushing for it..
• ESMA publishes a working paper on DeFi and categorisation of smart contracts.
• The second edition of the briefing on the African Con
• tinental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) of the International Trade Union Conference-Africa (ITUC-Africa) is now available on the website of the organization.
• Technology is a powerful tool for financial inclusion, sometimes.
• Exploring the Future of Cross-Border Payments with Multi-CBDC Platforms
• Exclusive: EU to scrap late payment reforms after industry backlash

c. Sustainability & ESG

• GARP conducted its first global study on nature risks at financial firms.
• News for Sustainable Finance in the Steel Sector!
• World Development Report 2024
• A deep dive into energy savings in public buildings across the Balkans+ region.
• Carbon Accounting for Sustainable Biofuels
• Fortescue and COSCO Shipping to build green fuel supply chainhttps://www.linkedin.com/posts/tgjames_fortescue-and-cosco-shipping-to-build-green-activity-7225040155848441856-l6o6?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
• The New Merchants of Doubt: How Big Meat and Dairy Avoid Climate Action
• Impact as a New Commodity: A Global Economic Revolution
• The multibillion dollar question - SBTi rows back on carbon credits
• Humans are likely eating significantly more microplastics than we thought.
• Circular Economy is integral for electronics sector.
• What is a “whole-of-government” approach?
• Scaling Up Adaptation Finance in Developing Countries: Challenges and Opportunities for International Providers.
• THE ELECTRIC MINE
• Addressing Climate Change, Poverty, and Hunger with Agrifoodtech | UNDP Global Centre, Singapore
• Creating markets for climate-friendly basic materials - Potentials and policy options
• Urban climate action hinges on the right enabling framework conditions hashtag#EFCs to provide hashtag#regulatory clarity, enhance institutional hashtag#capacity, mitigate hashtag#investment hashtag#risks, promote hashtag#stakeholder hashtag#engagement, and boost access to hashtag#finance, driving long-term hashtag#sustainability.
• The African least developed country has made significant strides in attracting foreign direct investment. What more can be done to sustain the momentum?
• Iraq: Trade and government revenue gets boost from digital customs.
• How do you create value with "used goods" that often end up in the trash?
• EnviStats India 2024
• Maintaining a hashtag#stable and steady hashtag#electric energy supply that is mainly based on variable RES (Renewable Energy Sources) requires a flexible and dispatchable balancing solution for electric hashtag#power generation.
• IFC - International Finance Corporation has announced a $50 million commitment to help mobilize $1 billion for the BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group Group's (TIG) Latin American hashtag#reforestation strategy.
• We are in for a tumultuous era in hashtag#geopolitics that will require our greatest reservoirs of hashtag#wisdom, hashtag#tolerance, hashtag#diplomacy and global-scale hashtag#cooperation. T
• Financial Times profiles IFC - International Finance Corporation's groundbreaking hashtag#biodiversity bond with BBVA en Colombia.
• Beyond Plastics: A review of trade-related policy measures on non-plastic substitutes.
• Asian Development Bank Sustainability Report 2024
• Why Geopolitical Disruption Is Adding Up To More Than The Sum Of Its Parts (And How Businesses Must Prepare)
• Empowering Women in Agriculture: Insights from GAAP2 Projects
• Verra launched a new market label for Verified Carbon Units (VCUs)!
• U.S. Oil And Gas Rig Count In Biggest Monthly Rise Since November 2022
• New Insights from European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) on the Sustainable Finance Framework
• Make a Stronger Business Case for Sustainability
• Climate resilience is increasingly gaining attention (and financing).
• Kuwait’s Energy Transition
• Green Steel Economics - Comparing Economics of Green H2-DRI and Traditional Steel making Around the World
• Development interventions increasingly include women’s empowerment and gender equality among their objectives, but evaluating their impact has been stymied by the lack of measures that are comparable across interventions.
• Renewable energy statistics 2024

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