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The international steel sector is working to reduce its climate change impact through closer links to the renewable energy sector, along with steel making innovation and more recycling.

This industry is responsible for between 7% and 9% of human-generated carbon dioxide, according to the World Steel Institute.…

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.…

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.…

The Covid-19 pandemic and latterly the Russian invasion of Ukraine has sparked an increase in cybercrime and fraud, and the halal sector – reliant on compliance with detailed production and sales standards – is a soft target for commercial criminals.

This fact is compounded by the proliferation of halal certificates as the sector expands worldwide.…

Honda announced this morning (March 16) that it would be investing CAD1.4 billion (USD1.09 billion) into retooling its plants in Alliston, north of Toronto, so they can make hybrid vehicles and engines.

“This represents an important milestone for Honda as we move forward in our ambitious vision to make battery electric vehicles represent 100% of our North America vehicle sales by 2040,” said Jean Marc Leclerc, president and CEO of Honda Canada Inc.…

A senior lawyer in Brazil who has defended criminals accused of money laundering has told MLB how the Lava Jato cases which highlighted massive public corruption have pushed launderers towards using crypto-currency to hide dirty money.

But even though the Lava Jato task force was officially disbanded in 2021, Pierpaolo Bottini, partner at São Paulo-based Bottini & Tamasauskas Advogados, and a former director of the Economic Criminal Law of the Brazilian Institute of Criminal Sciences said this abuse of crypto has been highlighted by cases he is defending. …