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:
b. Trade Finance:
- Support to the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)
- Achieving Growth Through Trade Digitalisation
c. Sustainability & ESG
- Carbon Markets - CFTC
- The Sustainable Banking and Finance Network (SBFN) concluded its 8th Global Meeting on September 11-12, 2024, in Rio de Janeiro.
- According to the Living Planet Index, freshwater wildlife populations have plummeted more than 80% from 1970 to 2020.
- IFC - International Finance Corporation: hashtag#ESG standartlarının tətbiqi Azərbaycan şirkətlərini dünyada tanıdacaq
- Level Up Your Green Game: The hashtag#ISO's hashtag#CircularEconomy Toolkit for Businesses
- Bringing ESG Accountability to Global Supply Chains: A New Era of Responsibility
- Is there a great future in plastics?
- World Economic Forum (WEF) Quantum for Society: Meeting the Ambition of the SDGs [20 September 2024]
- As the hashtag#SummitOfTheFuture approaches, we hope delegates consider all the ways in which the UN’s hashtag#2030Agenda and its 17 hashtag#SustainableDevelopmentGoals have, in fact, made progress and built a solid foundation that will be crucial for future global cooperation.
- #StrategicTradeControl (hashtag#STC) frameworks.
- Asia-Pacific Agri-Food Innovation Summit
- Effective climate change adaptation requires a whole of society approach as emphasized by the IPCC 6th Assessment Report.
- t Ashwin A S, our Manager of Standard Development and innovation at Gold Standard, will speak at today’s Agrifood Café event, which is organized by the UN World Food Programme.
Events:
- 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