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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