#36 - Weekly News Digest 20240909-0915

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:

• Embracing the Future: The Role of Blockchain in Revolutionizing Industries.

b. Trade Finance:

• MLETR AND PIL: AN OPPORTUNITY TO CLARIFY

• Launching a New Credit Insurance Venture: A Comprehensive Guide

• Swift’s Vision for Digital Assets, Janus Henderson Launches Tokenized Treasury Fund, Finstreet Builds Blockchain-Powered Financial Ecosystem in UAE!

• Accelerating the Digital Transformation of Global Trade: Insights from the Latest ICC DSI Report

• Science Fiction for aGlobal Trade Infrastructure (GTI) and Architecture for Interoperability

• Levelling the playing field for factoring around the world, where will future growth come from?

c. Sustainability & ESG

• Did you know the world produces over 2 billion tons of municipal waste annually?

• ESMA Research Conference “Environmental risks and ESG investing: securities market impacts” is coming up on 15 October 2024. The conference will explore developments and risks in this area, considering both investor protection and financial stability implications.

• TPI State of Transition Report 2024 is out!: https://lnkd.in/eFH-fSM4

• Emission Reduction Targets by Country

• Embracing Forest Carbon Markets in 2024: A Corporate Imperative

• Blockchain, Web3, and Digital Assets in the Donations Space.

• European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) – a pivotal step towards combating global deforestation and promoting sustainable supply chains

• -The Australian Government has released its 2024 National Hydrogen Strategy.

• -Climate Change: What Are Net-Zero Emissions?

• Forestry and food in a climate neutral EU

• -A Comprehensive Guide to the Greenhouse Gases Driving Climate Change

• Tracking the Propensity of Biofuels Degradation Across the Maritime Supply Chain

• Comprehensive climate and disaster risk management is central to development planning.

• Land carbon modeling

• Sustainability bonds

• The August 2024 EFRAG Update is now available

• The unintended consequences of ESG investing - and how to prevent them

• Navigating the CSDDD with CDP: A Must-Read Guide

• old Standard is supporting the implementation of a pilot activity to strengthen the governance of the Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM) in Colombia, Mexico, and Peru.

• How to best fund sustainable development and justice-related issues in the Global South?

• Key elements in the net zero roadmap

• Northern Trust's launch of a carbon ecosystem using blockchain is another significant step towards integrating digital innovation with environmental stewardship. As we see more financial institutions embracing blockchain for tracking carbon credits, it's clear that decentralized technologies are becoming pivotal in creating transparency and trust in sustainability efforts.

• The London Climate Resilience Review

• Regenerative Finance and Blockchain: Uniting Forces to Combat Environmental Challenges

• Climate X has just released their Climate Risk Operations Manual, a critical resource for anyone managing climate risk in the financial sector!

• Fuelling Innovation: Closing Fintech Funding Gaps

• Global Innovation Index Science and Technology Clusters 2024

• limateWorks Foundation and Enerdata collaborated to published a report titled "Unlocking the Potential of Green Hydrogen."

• Unlocking the potential of hashtag#carbonpricing in reducing hashtag#GHGemissions requires not only setting a clear policy direction but also overcoming political economy challenges

• Unlocking India's RE and Green Hydrogen Potential An Assessment of Land, Water, and Climate Nexu

• Why GHG audits matter

• Verra has released a revised version of the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) methodology for Improved Agricultural Land Management (VM0042).

• -State and Trends of International hashtag#CarbonMarkets

• ESG why me?

• Talking about hashtag#innovations -here is a real one: an emerging markets-focused tool to estimate GHG hashtag#emissions related to hashtag#crop & hashtag#food loss.

• Greening the Steel Sector in India: Roadmap and Action Plan

• BSCA Big Impact Talk with Hariesh Mandiar

• Transition Plan Taskforce (TPT) framework, created by the UK government

• Open Forest Protocol, High Integrity Carbon Credits Innovator, Closes Seed Round

• Where does India stand today to achieve the SDGs by 2030?

• FORLIANCE and Gold Standard have teamed up to launch a groundbreaking Mangrove Management Methodology using remote sensing to protect and restore coastal ecosystems!

• SCOPE 3 UPSTREAM: Big Challenges, Simple Remedies | CDP and The Boston Consulting Group (BCG)

• -One of the key challenges facing most organizations is defining material ESG risks that are highly relevant and impactful to their operations

• Why it’s essential to advocate for high-integrity carbon markets

• THE BIG QUESTION ON THE FUTURE OF DIGITAL TRADE

• Gender-Transformative Climate Change Adaptation

• Climate change adaptation must prioritize gender, equity and justice for it to be effective, as highlighted in the latest IPCC 6th Assessment Report.

• Is Impact Out of Scope? A Call for Innovation in Climate Standards

• ESIG (Energy Systems Integration Group) published last week the report titled "Diagnosis and Mitigation of Observed Oscillations in IBR-Dominant Power Systems" - August 2024

• The ESG audit checklist

• How can you use ESG proxies to upgrade portfolio optimisation?

• A roadmap for green and transition finance in India

• Suboptimal diets have been identified as a major cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide.

• s impact out of scope? A call for innovation in climate standards toinspire action across companies’ Spheres of Influence

• World Bank Group - Climate Change Knowledge Portal - Malaysia

• In-Depth Analysis of Green Hydrogen Certification Processes in the EU

• Empowering women in fisheries value chains

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