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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.…

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.…

The signing of the Australia-United Kingdom Free Trade Agreement (A-UKFTA) may have created one new trade deal, but it is regarded in contrasting lights by the two countries’ respective dairy industries.

On the UK-side, industry association Dairy UK regards this as an unequal deal, giving British exporters little to leverage.…

The European personal care product industry is facing a barrage of new European Union (EU) regulations, with a review of the 2009 Cosmetics Products Regulation (CPR) (1) being combined with environmental reforms. These changes, debated at the 2023 annual conference of personal care product industry association Cosmetics Europe – called ‘Preparing for the Future’- will be a major challenge.…

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).…

Artificial intelligence (AI) could transform the accounting sector in the Middle East, as well as the work of clients, so practice leaders should embrace this technology, a Dubai conference co-hosted by ACCA has been told.

Vivek Sam, Director, Technology Assurance, Deloitte, Middle East, told the Finance Excellence and Leadership Summit, held on May 21: “Use the technology.…

The European Parliament (EP) is pushing for European Union (EU) policies and laws to impede fast fashion, which its members consider a threat to the environment. MEPs have been debating how to respond to the EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles, which was released by the European Commission last March (2022) as a detailed road map pushing the industry towards circulatory and carbon neutrality.…

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. …

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.…

Senior autonomous vehicle experts meeting in Europe have accepted that systems enabling fully autonomous private vehicles are unlikely to become comprehensive until 2050.

Moreover, the ITS European Congress 2023 (on ‘Intelligent Transportation Systems’) was told cooperation was needed to make universal transport autonomy a reality, with automakers working with regulators, transport ministries, researchers, navigation tech providers and other partners.…