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Stellantis members of Canadian autoworkers union Unifor have backed the final D3 Canada agreement secured in this year’s contract negotiation round. This means a three-year deal will now apply to 8,200 workers in Canada until September 2026. The union said 60% of members at Stellantis’ Brampton and Windsor assembly plants; and its Etobicoke Casting Plant – all in Ontario – approved the tentative agreement stuck last Monday (Oct 30).…

The New Zealand Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) has called for comments on planned reductions to allowable lead levels in paints, and in art materials such as chalk, crayons, and felt-tip pens.

The country’s current lead level limit for paint is 0.1% (1,000 parts per million/ppm) and the proposed changes would reduce this to 0.009% (90ppm), in line with countries including Australia, Canada and the United States, the EPA said in a note.…

Implementing international sanctions is never easy, but the sanctions regime on Iran is highly complex, buffeted by shifting diplomatic stances. With its Security Council ally Russia relying on Iranian military and technology supplies for it to pursue its invasion of Ukraine, time-limited UN restrictions on Iran’s nuclear programme officially lapsed on October 18.…

The risks of money laundering and terrorist financing (ML/TF) are increasing globally, according to the 2023 edition of the Basel AML Index (1), mainly through a “concerning” drop in the effectiveness of AML/CFT systems, indicated by Basel Institute on Governance analysis of Financial Action Task Force (FATF) data.…

The United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) private Al Ain University (AAU), located in the oasis city with the same name, is leading the way on sustainable development among local universities, through initiatives to boost quality education and global and national partnerships.
AAU, in Abu Dhabi emirate, on the Oman border, of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), was considered the best UAE university in the 2023 Times Higher Education Impact Ranking (https://www.timeshighereducation.com/impactrankings#!/length/25/locations/ARE/sort_by/rank/sort_order/asc…

The number of students at Portuguese higher education (HE) institutions may have peaked in the past academic year (September 2022 to July 2023), say the country’s HE officials, with proactive measures needed to ensure a projected future decline is not too steep. …

FATF, Interpol and the Egmont Group have called on governments to undertake three priority reforms to combat the increasing amount of money laundering generated by cyber-enabled fraud. These attacks have mushroomed during and since the Covid-19 pandemic. The US FBI said in June (2023) that cyberattacks and cyber-enabled frauds in the USA cost more than USD10.2 billion in 2022, up from USD6.9 billion in 2021 (1)

In a new FATF/Interpol/Egmont Group report released this month (November) ‘Illicit Financial Flows from Cyber-Enabled Fraud’ [CEF], the three organisations call for better domestic co-ordination between regulators, law enforcement, AML reporters and other actors; more multilateral collaboration; and strengthened detection and prevention (2).…

Brazil generated 92.8% of its electricity from low or zero carbon sources during the first nine months of 2023, producing more clean power by proportion of overall output among all G20 countries in 2022, with a share of 89.1%, according to data released by London, UK-based global energy thinktank Ember (1).…

As US brands look for new ways to communicate quality and integrate sustainability into their business, their attention is increasingly shifting to digitally printed fabric signage. Part of this growth is fuelled by iconic global brands such as Apple (1) and Nike (2) opting for digitally printed backlit soft signage.…

With the Gulf a key focus of this and next month’s COP28 meeting in Dubai, universities in Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait are playing a more proactive role in promoting sustainability within their campuses and beyond.

All three countries are facing tough environmental challenges intensified by climate change, such as extreme heat, with these wealthy Arab countries’ HE sectors seeking solutions, for instance in food and water security.…