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Transparency International (TI) has warned that “conflict creates opportunities for corruption and subverts governments’ efforts to stop it” when unveiling its 2022 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) on January 31, scoring 180 countries worldwide on perceived levels of public sector corruption from 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean) with the average 43.…

With the USA looking to replace fossil fuel consumption in its energy sector, its nuclear industry has “no appetite” for building traditional large-scale nuclear reactors…because of the delays and the cost overruns on such mega projects, said Jacopo Buongiorno, a nuclear energy expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).…

Researchers at the University of Sherbrooke, in Québec, supported by CMC Microsystems, are helping build sensors to detect ‘dark matter’ – the unknown substance that scientists think makes up about 27% of the universe. That, combined with the equally undetectable dark energy (68% of the universe says physics research centre CERN), can be inferred by its gravitational pull on stars and planets.…

The agreement of the first two International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) standards may help new tech-based data networks unlock capital and investment flows to smaller businesses and especially in emerging markets, a symposium in Montréal, Canada, has been told.

A panel of development experts speaking at the event on Friday (Feb 17) noted how artificial intelligence (AI) and machine-learning-based data platforms can mesh with digitised smaller businesses, helping entice investors seeking sustainable opportunities.…

An International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) symposium in Montréal, Canada, has heard how accounting standards experts are striving to build a “global baseline” of regulation based on ISSB standards, despite the contrasting guidance being developed worldwide.

Speaking at the event on Friday (Feb 17), Mark Carney, UN special envoy for climate action and finance, and former central bank governor for the UK and Canada, said of the baseline: “It’s critical.…

International sustainable reporting standards may seem like a worthy effort to corral companies into good fighting climate change but in Chile, integrated reporting is deemed an economic lifeline.

Its Financial Market Commission (CMF – Comisión para el Mercado Financiero) has issued a General Rule No.…

As regulators in jurisdictions worldwide prepare to pass laws making sustainability reporting mandatory for listed companies, the auto sector will need to reassess detailed environmental and social standards already developed by standard setting bodies.

That is the case for the US-owned and based auto sector, especially foreign companies making autos in the US and American companies with plants overseas.…

The chair of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) on Friday (Feb 17) announced that it had approved the final versions of its first two standards: IFRS S1 General Requirements for Disclosure of Sustainability-related Financial Information and IFRS S2 Climate-related Disclosures will now be released by the end of Q2 2023, with a January 1, 2024 effective date said ISSB chair Emmanuel Faber.…

A desire to contribute to nation-building and improve standards of universities within Somalia is luring Somali intellectuals to return home to work in academia.

Professor Abdullahi Barise, the founding president of the City University of Mogadishu, said his institutions and others were welcoming this increasing number of foreign-educated Somalia lecturers and professors.…

Paradigm shifting technology involving collaboration between different scientific disciplines looks set to strengthen the impact of medical adhesives on clinical care as unhealthy lifestyles fuel increasingly diverse interventions, according to researchers and industry observers.

With sustainability “a front and centre priority”, said Paul Saunders, senior manager, global marketing, for Avery Dennison, a Los Angeles, USA-based material science company, issues such as bone reconstruction, wound management, haemorrhage prevention and drug dispensing devices are all being enhanced, with adhesives development a key element.…