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Activists within the UN-supported Higher Education Sustainability Initiative (HESI) have been discussing plans to integrate sustainability concerns into HE courses’ accreditation, so that environmental-health concerns become an integral part of learning. https://sdgs.un.org/HESI

Debra Rowe, HESI Action Group co-chair and president, said speakers emphasised “the international trends toward this from business schools, engineering programmes, countries’ national policies, and more, and how we can help these countries move along faster in this direction.”…

Brazil, the world’s fifth largest country by land area, is preparing to use its abundant natural resources and major renewable energy sector to become the world’s largest producer of green hydrogen (H2V). However, with several challenges to overcome, its likely success is tough to predict, say local experts.…

When the UK left the European Union (EU) on 1 January 2021, it also left the EU’s comprehensive REACH chemical control system, which was formally replaced by a UK REACH system. This mirrored EU REACH, grandfathering existing registrations and restrictions to the national system, although GB companies lost access to EU databases run by the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA).…

Portuguese textile and garment industry executives have told Just Style how they can attract more international buyers and export sales at a tough time for the sector, through its sustainability, quality, innovations and proximity to main markets.
They were speaking at the 60+4 edition of Modtissimo, the oldest international textile fair in the Iberian Peninsula, in Matosinhos, northern Portugal, on September 12-13 (1).…

A landmark ruling in a Swiss court has clawed back the more than USD1.8 billion two dual nationals defrauded from the fraud and graft-wracked Malaysian investment fund, 1 Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB). 

The Swiss Federal Criminal Court, in Bellinzona, southern Switzerland, August 28 convicted two former PetroSaudi executives over their role in embezzling money from 1MDB for over six years starting in 2009.…

With the global commodities market valued at USD121.2 trillion in 2024 and expected to generate USD136.8 trillion in 2029 (1), the scope for fraudsters to make money from this sector is vast. German statistical service Statista notes that commodities sales have latent augmentation, given that it all includes emissions trading systems expanding worldwide, along with energy products, food and drink, precious and industrials metals and more.…

The gender pay gap is closing among anti-fraud professionals worldwide, according to the latest survey from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE). Its ‘Compensation Guide for Anti-Fraud Professionals’ (1) released September 25 shows median salaries for women are currently USD102,000 and men USD108,000, a USD6,000 difference, less than half the USD13,500 gap a decade ago.…

The UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has charged five former top executives of Swiss commodities giant Glencore, including ex head of the oil division, Alex Beard, with bribery in West Africa from 2007 to 2014.
In an August 1 statement (1), the SFO said it had charged Beard, who was one of Glencore’s top executives from 2007 until his retirement in 2019, his second in command, Andrew Gibson, plus Paul Hopkirk, Ramon Labiaga and Martin Wakefield “with conspiring to make corrupt payments” to benefit Glencore in the awarding of various oil contracts in Cameroon, Nigeria and the Ivory Coast.…

The election of a new Labour government in the UK comes at a critical time for chemical – and hence textile finishing materials – regulation in Great Britain, with public consultation under way on potential changes to how GB (not Northern Ireland) regulates its chemical industry and market (1).…

The election of a new Labour government in the UK comes at a critical time for chemical – and hence paint and coatings – regulation in Great Britain, with public consultation under way on potential changes to how GB (not Northern Ireland) regulates its chemical industry and market (1).…