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The Canadian and Mexican auto sectors are assessing a second Donald Trump presidency in the USA, given his threat to impose universal tariffs on all imports and to review the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).

Trump has floated imposing 10%-20% tariffs on all US imports, including trades with countries having free trade agreements with America.…

The International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) is considering a report highlighting difficulties in implementing its first two standards, with board members to consider whether they need amending. The paper focuses especially on problems linked to IFRS S2 on climate-related disclosures, such as concluding paragraphs being “unclear and [that] appear contradictory” to requirements in IFRS S2 regarding disclosure of “scope 3 category 15 GHG emissions”, for example.…

The Biden administration’s September 6 (2024) decision to renew the suspension of Ethiopia from membership of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), which once granted the Horn of Africa duty-free access to the USA, is forcing Africa’s second most populous country to look east for alternative textile and clothing investment and export sales.…

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.”…

French government plans for special “exceptional and temporary” taxes on the highest earning individuals and companies with the largest turnover will not make those targeted flee France, an aide close to budget minister Laurent Saint-Martin stressed to Accounting & Business.

The draft budget law (PLF) 2025 (1) was unveiled on October 10 by Saint-Martin (a member of the Rennaissance centrist bloc backing President Emmanuel Macron) and finance minister Antoine Armand (also from Rennaissance) before the French lower house of parliament, the National Assembly.…

EUROPEAN oil and fats industry representatives are concerned and green groups angry that the European Commission is proposing to delay (1) implementation of the May 2023 European Union (EU) deforestation regulation (EUDR) (2) by a year. However, industry groups in Malaysia and Indonesia are hailing the delay as a sensible move, helping them prepare for the new regime.…

Nigeria’s paint and coating industry and its key construction sector partner are at a crossroads, balancing economic pressures with regulatory demands, in a simultaneous push for growth and sustainability. Recent developments highlight the complex landscape facing manufacturers, regulators and consumers alike in Africa’s most populous country (with 230 million people). …

Ukraine has rewarded its first two whistleblowers taking part in a long-standing tip-off system designed to crack down on corruption. The historic court-ordered awards last month (October 2024) come five years after Ukraine introduced provisions allowing rewards for whistleblowers whose information proves critical in securing a conviction for corruption.…

Greece’s higher education sector is on the brink of a major transformation, with Cyprus’ University of Nicosia (UNIC) pushing to establish the country’s first private university – a UNIC Medical School in Athens, and at least other 25 globally-recognised universities prepare to offer graduate and postgraduate degrees in Greece.…

With its shortage of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) graduates, the United States is struggling to hire enough qualified professionals to meet the demands of many of domestic industries, the USA’s HE accreditation board ABET has noted. According to one estimate by the Washington DC-based Semiconductor Industry Association, in a report published in 2023, there will be a STEM shortage of approximately 1.4 million technicians, computer scientists and engineers in the US by 2030 (https://www.semiconductors.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/SIA_July2023_ChippingAway_website.pdf…