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EU’S GROUNDBREAKING WOMEN ON BOARDS DIRECTIVE COULD SMASH GLASS CEILING
The European Union’s (EU) new ‘Women on Boards’ directive (1) is designed to force change in the EU’s director cohort by requiring that the ‘under-represented sex’ (which could be male on rare female-dominated boards) make up 40% of non-executive directors or 33% of all major company directors.…
INNOVATORS EXPLORE POTENTIAL OF VERTICAL FARMS, IN BRITAIN AND OVERSEAS
As the world’s largest vertical farm is set to launch operations in Gloucestershire later this year, proponents have lauded the sustainability benefits of the model. They say it has the potential to reduce agriculture’s physical and carbon footprint, growing more crops with significantly reduced water usage, zero pesticides and delivering fresher produce than traditional field-based models.…
CANADIAN GOVERNMENT PROPOSES REGULATIONS MANDATING ALL NEW CARS, SUVs AND PICKUPS ARE ZERO EMISSION BY 2035
The Canadian government has released anticipated proposed regulations insisting that all new private passenger autos sold in Canada by 2035 must be zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs). While welcoming the law in principle, Canadian automakers have warned that the federal government will need to spend more in helping consumers buy ZEVs and on investing in charging networks to ensure this mandate is practical and affordable.…
TECHNICAL TEXTILES MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY STARTS TO EMERGE IN AFRICA
The manufacture of technical textiles is in its nascency across North Africa, even more so in sub-Saharan Africa, with the continent having long been considered a low-cost, cut-and-sew destination rather than a production hub for value-added items. But due to the trend by European and US brands for near-shoring and diversification away from east Asian production, and the ambitions of certain African countries to develop a full manufacturing chain, the potential for making technical textiles in Africa is gradually emerging.…
DYEING AND FINISHING STRUGGLING IN EGYPT, AFRICA’S LARGEST TEXTILE PRODUCER
Dyeing and finishing capabilities in Africa’s largest textile producer, Egypt, are being undermined by government import and foreign currency restrictions, forcing manufacturers to use roundabout means to source raw materials, say industry critics. Sectoral development is also being impacted by the drop in investment in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic and a downward slide in orders since the middle of this year (2022).…
TECHNICAL ROUND UP – IPSASB TO CREATE PUBLIC SECTOR SUSTAINABILLITY REPORTING STANDARDS
The International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board (IPSASB) will start detailed work developing sustainability reporting standards for public sector bodies.
Ian Carruthers, IPSASB chair, said: “The public sector needs its own specific sustainability reporting framework and the IPSASB should lead its development.”…
EFRAG LISTENS TO COMPLAINTS OVER EUROPEAN SUSTAINABILITY STANDARDS DRAFTS – PARES BACK DATA DEMANDS
The European Commission is now assessing a first set of detailed proposed European Union (EU) mandatory sustainability reporting standards, delivered – on time – by the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) Sustainability Reporting Board (SRB). (1)
Due diligence assessments and potential amendments will now be undertaken by the EU executive, before its formal adoption of these standards, planned for next June (2023).…
EUROPE’S TEXTILE COMPANIES CUT WATER USE TO LOWER ENERGY COSTS AND PREPARED FOR FUTURE WATER SCARCITY
European textile companies are working to ensure that future water scarcity problems will not affect their operations, notably by cutting water consumption and installing high quality waste treatment facilities, European Union (EU) experts have told World Textile Information Network (WTiN).
According to EU statistical agency Eurostat’s regional yearbook 2022 (1), EU water scarcity – chiefly seen in southern Europe, with Portugal’s textile industry particularly affected – is primarily driven by climate change and excessive water consumption.…
TECHNICAL ROUND UP – ISSB SAYS SUSTAINABILITY REPORTERS MUST COLLECT DATA ON DIRECT AND INDIRECT EMISSIONS
The International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) has approved key technical decisions about the operation of its first two proposed sustainability-related disclosure standards, on general and climate-related disclosures – insisting that all direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions are declared. That means that ‘scope 1’ direct emissions from a company; ‘scope 2’ indirect emissions from electricity purchased and used; and scope 3 indirect emissions from across a company’s the value chain will be measured and declared under ISSB-authorised statements.…
INFLATION AND ENERGY CRISIS POSING UNPRECEDENTED CHALLENGES TO GERMANY’S BEER SECTOR
Germany’s estimated 1,300 breweries are leaving the Covid-19 pandemic behind only to find themselves faced with skyrocketing energy prices and the affiliated rapid consumer price inflation. Several of large German brewery groups have already raised their prices to compensate for their past Coronavirus losses, and a second wave of price increases has recently been announced for early 2023.…