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Saudi Arabia’s universities are ramping up their efforts to boost their sustainability working within an unforgiving status quo of fossil fuel reliance, high energy and water consumption plus rising greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Public and private universities have in recent years started addressing these challenges by fostering sustainability practices on their campuses and influencing Saudi society to become environmentally conscious. …

Digitalisation is not only changing financial products and services, it is also shaping new roles and responsibilities of internal teams, pushing businesses to rely more heavily on treasurers to manage their company’s environmental, social, and governance (ESG) KPIs, according to industry insiders.…

South America often eschews regional economic trends, with countries having sharply diverging fortunes, reflecting their contrasting economic interests and performance, as well as differing political records and policies. The paint and coating sector is not insulated from these trends, and while global issues such as the Covid-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine affect all national markets and producers, in South America, the impacts are often manifested differently across the continent.…

South Africa’s paints and coatings market is expected to generate USD2.1 billion by 2026 after growing at an estimated 5.6% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) between 2021 and 2026. This is according to India-based market research and data analytics provider IndustryARC (1).…

Kenya is being opened as a potential outsourcing centre for European Union (EU) knitwear brands by a new EU-Kenya Economic Partnership agreement, now being considered for ratification by the EU Council of Ministers and the European Parliament (1). Once implemented, the deal will remove 12% and 9.6% EU duties charged on many knitted apparel exports from Kenya, potentially boosting a knitted apparel and accessory trade, growing in recent years.…

Gorpcore’ fashion, wearing outdoor functional clothing as fashionable streetwear, is rising in popularity, so much that much specialist apparel specifically designed for mountain environments will “never see a mountain,” a performance clothing designer has told WTiN.

Their expensive materials and complex designs have “attracted fashion and streetwear to outdoor clothing,” Richard Dannah, an outdoor performance designer with more than 20 years’ experience in the field, told WTiN.…

Thailand has often been overshadowed as a clothing and textile outsourcing hub, given the high profile of the industries in neighbours Vietnam and Cambodia – but its output is significant and a free trade agreement (FTA) now under negotiation with the European Union (EU) could boost its exports.…

Governments and major auto companies worldwide are vying to be sustainable transport champions, declaring ambitious goals for a switch to electric and zero-emission vehicles as well as other measures to green up their fleets. But environmentalists say that ‘green-botching’ where environmental measures are being implemented by governments and companies so badly that they undermine their green goals is becoming a real problem.…

Niger students admitted to French universities for the 2023-2024 academic year have been stranded in their home country because of the recent coup d’état. The French embassy in the capital Niamey says 1,200 Niger students are due to attend higher education courses in France for the new academic year, with 456 recently admitted for their first year of study and hence requiring a French visa to travel.…

Risk specialists predict that the current instability in China’s trust sector and China’s slowing economic growth will lead to a massive outflow of capital from China, breaching Chinese money laundering laws. That will include both the export of legally earned money in excess of Chinese capital export caps of USD50,000 per year and illicit movements of criminal proceeds.…