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EU CAN MANUFACTURERS CONTEST NEW PACKAGING REUSE RULES
THE EUROPEAN Commission’s new proposal for a European Union (EU) packaging and packaging waste regulation, released last November (2022) (1), contains unrealistic reuse and refill targets, European can industry experts have told CanTech International. Their comments come as negotiations begin between the Commission – the EU’s executive, the European Parliament and the EU Council of Ministers on securing agreement over the draft text.…
ISSB PUSHES FOR ITS STANDARDS TO BE SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING GLOBAL BASELINE
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.…
TECHNICAL ROUND UP – IOSCO REVAMPS COMMODITY DERIVATIVE TRADING GUIDANCE TO HELP MANAGE SURPRISE EVENTS
The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has updated its Principles for the Regulation and Supervision of Commodity Derivatives Markets, the first major overhaul of this core guidance since 2011. IOSCO said the changes were designed “to provide a resilient framework for the regulation and oversight of the commodity derivatives markets”, taking account of recent market developments and international events, such as the Covid-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.…
ISSB MAY OFFER CHILE AN ECONOMIC LIFELINE – ATTRACTING MUCH NEEDED FOREIGN CAPITAL
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.…
ASIAN PAINT AND COATING REGULATORY ROUND-UP – CHINA ORIENTATES ELECTRIC VEHICLE AUTO COATINGS RULES TO EU REACH REGIME
China’s Zhongguancun Inspection, Testing and Certification Industry Technology Alliance has released a standard to promote Chinese conformity with European Union’s (EU) REACH chemical control regulation in the automotive industry. The standard proposes REACH-compliant restrictions on REACH-regulated automotive chemicals, including paints and coatings.…
DETAILED AUTOMOTIVE SUSTAINABILITY STANDARDS GAIN IN AUTHORITY AS GOVERNMENTS PREPARE REPORTING REGULATIONS
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.…
ISSB APPROVES FIRST FINAL STANDARD TEXTS AS IT DEVELOPS INTO FULLY-FLEDGED GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING BODY
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.…
SOMALI EXPAT ACADEMICS RETURN TO SOMALIA FOR UNIVERSITY JOBS – BUT FOR LOVE OF COUNTRY, NOT MONEYSOMALI EXPAT ACADEMICS RETURN TO SOMALIA FOR UNIVERSITY JOBS – BUT FOR LOVE OF COUNTRY, NOT MONEY
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.…
US TOBACCO LEAF DEMAND REMAINS HIGH, DESPITE MOVE AWAY FROM SMOKED PRODUCTS
Demand for US tobacco leaf is projected to remain robust, despite increased reluctance to use smoked products (worsened by concerns about respiratory disease prompted by Covid-19) and the ongoing China–US trade war launched by former US President Donald Trump.
Tobacco leaf was one of the Chinese export products hit by punitive US import duties of 25% imposed during 2019, with China responding in kind with additional 10% and 25% duties levied on US exports of tobacco leaf to China.…
BRAZIL’S NEW PRESIDENT UNDER PRESSURE TO REVAMP BIOFUEL CHAIN
Brazil’s biofuel industry is putting pressure on the country’s new President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to make significant reversals to the laissez-faire policies implemented by his right-wing predecessor Jair Bolsonaro to boost the domestic market in 2023. The sector is concerned about a sluggish economy, which the OECD says will grow just 1.2% in 2023 (inflation stands at 5.77% – January figures).…