#40 - Weekly News Digest 20241007-1013

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:

• Interlinking the supply chain with blockchain technology

• Blockchain for Cold Chain Logistics Market Size Will Reach USD 1592.4 Billion by 2034, at 14.3% CAGR: Prophecy Market Insights

• Blockchain: A Game-Changer for Nigeria’s Agricultural Transformation

• Enhancing consumer trust with blockchain-verified supply chains

• Lufthansa, Deutsche Telekom launch DePIN blockchain nodes

• Blockchain: The Secret Sauce for a Secure Food Supply Chain

• Blockchain leaders finesse tech to find fake drugs

• Unlocking the promise of DePIN

• LLM Based Chatbot for Farm-to-Fork Blockchain Traceability Platform

• Blockchain and AI are impacting Supply Chain outcomes.

• What SMEs really want

b. Trade Finance:

• Gold-backed ecosystem aims to bridge blockchain to TradFi

• Recently added to the CML CMI database - Stournaras Stylianos Monoprosopi EPE v Maersk A/S, 7 October 2024: Carriage of goods by sea, bills of lading, declaration by shipper, fraud, weight, apparent order and condition of the goods, carrier's duty of care to consignee:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreafrosinini/recent-activity/reactions/#:~:text=Institutional%20adoption%20of%20Tokenization%20in%20the%20real%20world%20business%20use%20cases.

• European Bank, World Bank and WEF advocate for "Open Loop" Transportation infrastructures

• Global Trade Outlook

• Know Your Transaction: Is There Such a Thing as Too Much Information?

• New Report Release: Unveiling the Future of Global Trade Through Digital Standards

• Driving Digital Transformation in Containerized Trade

• ICTP 323: Developing technology as an export in the Caribbean region, with Vashti Maharaj of the Commonwealth Secretariat

• The latest research from the Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation shows that National Trade Facilitation Committees (NTFCs) with strong public-private collaboration drive more impactful trade reforms. Alliance Director Philippe Isler highlights five compelling reasons why governments should include the private sector in NTFCs:

• New App boosts fight against trade barriers in Africa.

• How are WaveBL's eBLs presented to banks?

• Digitalisation from end to end: Lloyds Bank trade insights

• A new supply chain finance approach: Deep-Tier Supply Chain Finance. What does DTSCF mean and where does digitalization intersect?

• Green shoots in half-year trade finance results, but trade recovery patchy

• Bill of Lading as a Document of Title and proving possession in a digital environment

• Finance for Nature Positive Framework: Building a Working Model

• The Passport for Goods: Is it time for an international trade evolution - or why not a trade revolution? The world needs it.

c. Sustainability & ESG

• Blockchain-Enabled Provenance and Supply Chain Governance for Indigenous Foods and Botanicals: A Design Approach Study

• Southeast Asia: Foreign investments resilient despite global economic uncertainties hashtag#UNCTAD hashtag#ASEAN

• Making Industrial Policy Work for SDGs

• Final report – Technical study on the possible introduction of optional building renovation passports

• BIOENERGY IN THE EUROPEAN UNION STATUS REPORT ON TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT, TRENDS, VALUE CHAINS & MARKETS

• n October 30 at COP16, you're invited to join us and GCA Accountability Accelerator for the event 'Action Unlocked: Driving Corporate Change with Validated Science-Based Targets for Nature

• Biomethane – natural gas produced from renewable sources such as municipal and agricultural waste – offers a reliable, drop-in fuel that can meet the energy needs of citizens.

• Shaping Sustainable International Hydrogen Value Chains

• AFRICA–EUROPE COOPERATION AND DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

• Biodiversity Credits Podcast

• Biomethane – natural gas produced from renewable sources such as municipal and agricultural waste – offers a reliable, drop-in fuel that can meet the energy needs of citizens.

• Join us on October 15 for an event about science-based targets for ocean industries, taking place during the 7th International Marine Conservation Congress (IMCC7) in Cape Town, South Africa.

• Climate risks are increasing and resulting extreme weather events are posing several challenges for infrastructure developers and the insurance industry

• Les barrières réglementaires menacent la transition vers une économie circulaire

• Ahead of the UN hashtag#Biodiversity Conference hashtag#COP16 in Cali, IISD’s Earth Negotiations Bulletin Team Lead, Dr. Elsa Tsioumani, breaks down key issues driving the upcoming negotiations of the Convention on Biological Diversity.

• Energy efficiency is the first fuel but faces significant challenges in deployment and scaling up, especially in emerging economies.

• Renewable Energy and Jobs

• Will 2024 be the year when global energy emissions will peak?

• In the Democratic Republic of Congo, an African Development Bank-funded agroforestry project is rebuilding biodiversity and enhancing livelihoods

• How Will a Global Plastics Treaty Impact Trade?

• hashtag#Hydrogen plays a leading role in achieving a future with net zero greenhouse gas emissions.

• Biodiversity Finance Metrics for Impact Reporting

• Nigeria is Leading the Way in Food Security & Agricultural Innovation

• hashtag#ICC, in cooperation with hashtag#EY, has identified the key hashtag#barriers that companies face when adopting hashtag#circular hashtag#business hashtag#models and presents avenues for policymakers and businesses to overcome them and accelerate the transition to the circular economy.

• Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR)

• The Breakthrough Agenda Report 2024

• The latest edition of the IISD Insights newsletter is out now

• Deloitte’s 2024 CxO Sustainability Report: Signs of a shift in business climate action

• Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) Investment Case Symposium: taking urgent action to address the rapid loss of biodiversity

• DIGITAL SUSTAINABILITY

• How to prepare for the CSRD

• Africa on the Frontline of Climate Action, Now is the Time to Invest

• How can the Global Digital Compact – a comprehensive framework for global governance of digital technology and artificial intelligence – best incorporate the environmental dimension?

• Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment released a report titled "Financing Pathways for the Energy Transition: A Regional Approach".

• hashtag#Africa: From Climate Challenges to Global Climate Leadership

• Transition Finance can be defined as investment, financing, insurance, and related products and services that are necessary to support orderly real-economy transition to net zero.

• Sustainability and ESG: Where Are We Now?

Events:

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

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