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Activists within the UN-supported Higher Education Sustainability Initiative (HESI) have been discussing plans to integrate sustainability concerns into HE courses’ accreditation, so that environmental-health concerns become an integral part of learning. https://sdgs.un.org/HESI

Debra Rowe, HESI Action Group co-chair and president, said speakers emphasised “the international trends toward this from business schools, engineering programmes, countries’ national policies, and more, and how we can help these countries move along faster in this direction.”…

The UK government is poised to launch talks with the European Union (EU) on forging a sanitary and phytosanitary agreement (SPS) that could remove British and EU food health checks that impede the trade in dairy products.

Dairy UK chief executive Dr Judith Bryans told DII: “A new sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) agreement with the EU has the potential to help in reducing trade administration costs for UK dairy exporters.…

When the UK left the European Union (EU) on 1 January 2021, it also left the EU’s comprehensive REACH chemical control system, which was formally replaced by a UK REACH system. This mirrored EU REACH, grandfathering existing registrations and restrictions to the national system, although GB companies lost access to EU databases run by the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA).…

New members of the European Commission have been proposed for the next 2024-29 term, starting November 1, with paint and coating industry lobbyists facing experienced hands in the key trade and economy/de-regulation portfolios. Re-appointed Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has nominated Maroš Šefčovič, of Slovakia, as trade and economic security; interinstitutional relations and transparency Commissioner, for example.…

The advent of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) digital tools that can create content including text, computer code, images, audio, sound, and video, in response to a user’s ‘prompt’ – usually a short written description of the desired output – has exposed new vulnerabilities for intellectual property (IP) protection.…

The University of Victoria (UVic), in Canada’s temperate rain forest zone, on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, has blazed a trail in integrating its education for sustainable development (ESD) with an expansive range of courses and activities, deepening its impact.

The 2024, the Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings rated UVic as fifth worldwide in the world for supporting the UN sustainable development goal SDG13 on climate action; and fourth worldwide for helping promote SDG11 on developing sustainable cities and communities.…

Some British banks are still failing to reimburse victims of authorised push payment (APP) fraud, under the voluntary scheme that will be replaced on October 7 by mandatory reimbursement, the UK Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) has claimed in its latest annual report (1).…

European Union (EU) member states have been adapting to the new legal guidance on access to their national registers of ultimate beneficial owners (UBOs) following the November 2022 ruling (1) at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) and a new EU directive published June 19 (2024).…

Budget constraints are threatening the ability of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) to continue investigating VAT fraud, especially as it expands to take on newcomers Poland and Sweden this year, the Luxembourg-based office is warning. The EPPO College (1), a management board composed of the European Chief Prosecutor, Laura Kövesi, and prosecutors from the now 24 participating member states – has been pushing for a much bigger budget as the agency’s workload rises.…

The election of a new Labour government in the UK comes at a critical time for chemical – and hence textile finishing materials – regulation in Great Britain, with public consultation under way on potential changes to how GB (not Northern Ireland) regulates its chemical industry and market (1).…