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WILL THE FASHION SECTOR VALUE CHAIN COOPERATE EFFECTIVELY ON SUSTAINABILITY?



The sustainability of the global fashion industry is coming under increased scrutiny. Concerns about how the industry uses water, chemicals and human labour, its greenhouse gas emissions and the mounting landfilling of ‘fast fashion’ disposables, have led politicians, sustainability activists and consumers to put pressure on the industry to change.…

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UNFORESEEN CHALLENGES HINDER INDIA’S SOLAR POWER EXPANSION



The major Bhadla Solar Park in India’s desert state of Rajasthan has been leading the country’s transition towards renewable energy for its fast-growing economy and 1.4 billion people. However, the momentum in its roll-out has been hindered by difficulties encountered in laying transmission lines.…

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SINO-AMERICAN DIPLOMATIC AND TRADE STRESSES IMPEDE GROWTH IN GREEN POWER – BUT MARKETS STILL DRIVE EXPANSION



China has developed such a robust renewable energy sector that it can withstand the impact of potential decoupling from US markets and suppliers, say experts as Sino-American relations sour. But good relations and cooperation would strengthen both sides’ shift to clean power.…

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TEXTILE FINISHING INNOVATORS TARGET REDUCTION IN CHEMICAL WASTE



The European Commission’s revision of the European Union (EU) Waste Framework Directive, likely to incentivise EU companies that ensure their products are designed with circularity principles, is just one reason why the the textile dyeing and finishing segment is innovating over reducing waste.…

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MOZAMBIQUE HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS HESITANT TO RESUME ACTIVITIES IN TERRORISM AFFECTED AREAS



 

Higher education institutions harmed by a five-years-old Islamist insurgency in Mozambique’s northern Muslim-majority province Cabo Delgado province, are reluctant to restart operations, despite security guarantees from the Mozambican military, and their allied forces from Rwanda and the Southern African Development Community (SADC).…

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DYS SUPPLY CONCERNS HIT THE EUROPEAN UNION FOLLOWING PASSAGE OF NEW CLASSIFICATION AND LABELLING LAW



Textile finishers and dyers in the European Union (EU) will face another set of detailed sustainability rules, through the passage into law of a revised EU classification, labelling and packaging (CLP) regulation. This move has sparked industry concerns about additional costs and loss of competitiveness on global markets.…

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EU ROUND UP – OLAF TARGETS FRAUD IN HUGE COVID-19 RECOVERY FUNDS



European Union (EU) anti-fraud agency OLAF has told Belgium-based news wires it is probing fraud and graft in the EU’s EUR724 billion Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) (1), designed to help member states’ economies recover from Covid-19.

So far, EUR150 billion has been paid out, reported Brussels news service Knack, with Italy and Spain receiving more than 25% of payments.…

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TAIWANESE FASTENER-MAKERS READYING FOR BIG SLICE OF US’S EV PIE



Taiwan, being the world’s second largest fastener exporter by value after China is positioning itself to be a main supplier of fasteners for the US’s electric vehicle (EV) sector, said participants at Fastener Taiwan 2023 (Taiwan International Fastener Show), a B2B trade show, taking place in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung in early May. …

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TUNISIAN UNIVERSITY PLANS STRIPPING PROFESSOR OF EMERITUS TITLE OVER SYMPOSIUM VISIT ALONGSIDE ISRAELI ACADEMICS



The University of Manouba in Tunis, Tunisia, has said it will withdraw the title of emeritus professor from a historian and former dean of its faculty of arts, letters and humanities over his participation in an international academic symposium in Paris alongside Israeli academics.…

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NEW EU RULES FOR TRANSPARENT EXCISE DUTIES - WHAT IS STILL MISSING TO REALLY CRACK DOWN ON TOBACCO FRAUD?



Since February (2023), all tobacco sellers trading excise products across national borders within the European Union (EU) have been using paperless taxation and fully electronic duty transactions. (1) Previously, digital excise procedures were only accessible to operators using a so-called “duty suspension” procedure while duty-paid business-to-business procedures had to be accompanied by physical paper declarations noting the excise duty charged at their destination.…

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