The new funding is of vital importance in translating the Initiative from blueprint to concrete projects and tangible benefits to the peoples of various countries, an anonymous source at the Ministry of Commerce said. President Xi ...
Thirteen energy, transport and industry companies have launched a global initiative to voice a united vision and long-term ambition for hydrogen to foster the energy transition. In the first global initiative of its kind, the ...
Tags: Hydrogen Council, Davos
GS1 Australia officially launched the new Apparel RFID Implementation Guidelines to provide retailers and suppliers in the Australian apparel, fashion and footwear industry with best practice guidance on RFID implementation based on global ...
Tags: RFID, GTIN, supply chain efficiency
Chinese President Xi Jinping said Monday that China and France should work with all parties to effectively carry out the historic climate accord reached in Paris. During a telephone conversation with his French counterpart Francois ...
Tags: global economic growth, climate change, Paris climate conference
Xcel Energy is confident it can cut carbon emissions by 60% by 2030 from 2005 levels at a negligible cost to customers, mainly by building two new natural gas plants, adding more than 2,000 MW of renewables and keeping its nuclear plants ...
Tags: Xcel Energy, Carbon Emissions, natural gas
In order to further strengthen the close cooperation between China and the EU in urbanization and industrial sustainable development and promote the effective implementation of the Joint Declaration of China-EU Urbanization Partnership, the ...
Tags: China-EU Urbanization, Industrial Sustainable Development
The World Trade Organization (WTO) General Council has recently passed the protocol on the Trade Facilitation Agreement (hereinafter referred to as the Agreement), bringing the Agreement into the WTO Agreement, and opened the protocol for ...
At a seminar organised recently in Dhaka, experts recommended framing rules for making the Bangladesh textile industry environmental complaint due to the rise in demand for green products. The seminar titled ‘Legal and Regulatory ...
Tags: textile industry, green products
The European Parliament has completed the last stage in the process to grant the Philippines Generalised System of Preferences Plus (GSP+) that will provide duty free entry to the EU for some of the most important Philippine exports, ...
NEWARK (CN) – Hitachi, Panasonic, Sanyo and a host of other electronics manufacturers conspired to fix prices of capacitors, a Silicon Valley company claims in a federal antitrust class action. eIQ Energy, of San Jose, named 27 ...
Tags: Price Fixing, Electrical, Electronics
Efforts to make foods healthier in Australia are failing, and foods continue to contain high amounts of fat, sugar and salt, according to researchers from the George Institute and the University of Sydney. Professor Bruce Neal, from the ...
Tags: improve the nutritional, improving diets, business incentives
At the urging of the Alzheimer's Association and its more than 600,000 advocates, the funding bill signed into law today by President Obama contained an unprecedented $122 million increase for Alzheimer's research, education, outreach and ...
Global standards organisation GS1 has received accreditation by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as issuing agency for unique device identifiers (UDI). Global GS1 Standards meet the government’s criteria for UDI and will ...
Tags: FDA Accreditation, GS1
Following reports about U.S. surveillance worldwide, a United Nations panel has adopted a draft resolution on potential threats to human rights such as the right to privacy in the digital age. The draft resolution, approved without a ...
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Chairman Rod Sims has given the regulator's perspective on the debate surrounding the market share held by the two major supermarket chains. Mr Sims was speaking at the Australian Food and ...