Key Highlights Plastic pollution is a real issue due to global patterns of plastic production and consumption. Global trade can help reduce plastic pollution via trading agreements that support responsible plastic flows and circularity. A summit in Uruguay discussed establishing…
The Russia-Ukraine war has started to bring changes in the ESG investment process and supply chain of commodities. The investment processes in concern with ESG factors and requirements seem to take turns. This has resulted in a probable dismantling of…
Four European Union (EU) countries – Belgium, Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands jointly set an offshore wind target of at least 65 gigawatts (GW) by 2030. That figure is intended to get more than double to 150 GW by 2050.…
In the aftermath of the Russia-Ukraine war, the imports-reliant European country, Italy, will import gas from Qatar, which sounds like a ‘short-term solution’ to analysts. Russia’s gas imports account for nearly 40% of Italy’s total imports, as per global trade…
Carbon emissions from importing and exporting activities in global trade are a common scenario. Many countries face this due to changes in the social and economic factors of a country. With the rise in these factors and global trade, the…
At the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (UKCOP26), the world’s top twelve agricultural trading and processing companies come together to discuss the issue of climate change with the prevalence of the supply chain for agriculture-based products, having a net-zero…
On November 24, 2021, US International Trade Commission passed a suggestion to the USA government for the extension of Section 201. They recommended extending the time period for Section 201 global safeguard tariffs on photovoltaic (PV) cells and other solar…
