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A planned legally binding global agreement covering the lifecycle of plastics should hasten the regulation, proliferation and uptake of steps in the personal care product industry to eliminate plastic pollution, sector associations and experts.

Even before the decision in March (2022) by the United Nations Environment Assembly to conclude negotiations by 2024 on a pact to eliminate plastic pollution, cosmetics manufacturers of all sizes have been moving towards a more circular economy approach.…

The International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) has launched its first draft major standards – on general sustainability and climate-related disclosure requirements. The general draft says how organisations should detail sustainability risk, opportunities, planning and more. The climate draft lays down rules for declarations on climate resilience, risk management and more.…

Ontario’s minister for economic development, job creation and trade has told Wards how his conservative government, facing a general election in June, will push for the province to become an end-to-end EV maker – from battery mineral production to parts and auto assembly.…

Pressure to secure well-paying jobs, along with emotional pressure from peers and parents, is pushing Somali students to undertake medical science courses when possible and forgo opportunities to study for teaching and vocational careers.

According to a 2020 Country Graduate Survey by the Iftiin Foundation, a development and education-focused Somalia-based NGO, the number of education and arts graduates in the country is far too low.…

Stellantis and South Korea’s LG Energy Solution today (Wednesday March 23) announced they would build a CAD5 billion (USD4.1 billion) electric vehicle battery plant in Windsor, Ontario.

It will be the first such plant in the province, and should open in 2024, employing an estimated 2,500 people.…

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused major disruption to the textile sector in the region and beyond, with Ukraine manufacturers suffering from being within a war zone, and Russia textile companies suffering from the major sanctions imposed by European, north American and some Asian governments.…

INTRODUCTION 

Regulation, certification and liability have long been critical issues managed by textile executives, with consumer protection, industrial standardisation and chemical environmental health rules posing significant challenges to any professional fabric company. However, the advent of smart textiles has made such regulatory and legal considerations more complex, because of their integration of electronics and internet communications, which can bring such products under additional health and safety rules, along with privacy and cyber-crime statutes.…

With the Russian invasion of Ukraine prompting memories of the violence marring the break-up of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, the war is a warning that economic trends can and do flow regardless of political turmoil – and the tobacco industy is not an exception this rule.…

The Canadian auto sector wants its federal government to make major financial commitments to increase consumer subsidies for buying electric vehicles (EV) and build recharging systems, following an impostion of EV purchasing mandates.

Canada’s Liberal government (now formally backed by the social-democratic New Democratic Party – NDP) released policy on Tuesday (March 29) towards making the country a net-zero emissions jurisdiction by 2050.…

Greece is making an organised and coordinated attempt towards internationalising its academic institutions, boosting the global reputation of its higher education sector.

A key element of this strategy is the government’s Study in Greece (SiG) project (1), which encourages foreign students and academics to work in Greece, highlighting non-Greek language courses (especially English-language studies) at Greek Universities, and which has been operating since 2015.…