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:
- 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 Continental 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.
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.
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