New guidelines on Scope 3 embodied carbon measurement and reporting have been released by the UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) for built environment stakeholders. A company’s indirect embodied carbon emissions make up between 80 and 95 percent of its whole value chain footprint. This is… Read More »Empowering Sustainability: UKGBC’s Latest Guidance on Embodied Carbon Emissions Reporting Sets Stage for Stricter Carbon Reduction Strategies

In an effort to combat the growing amount of packaging waste in the EU and advance the circular economy, legislators in the European Parliament and Council have reached a provisional agreement on a new set of sustainable packaging regulations. One of the goals of this… Read More »EU Lawmakers Agree to New Law Targeting 100% Recyclable Packaging by 2030

The Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers released a draft resolution on February 16, 2024, with the goal of raising the bar for chemical product safety regulations. “On the Approval of the Technical Regulations for the Classification of Hazards, Labelling, and Packaging of Chemical Products,” is the… Read More »Ukraine Improves Chemical Safety: Draft Resolution Reveals GHS Implementation

On February 12, the State Administration for Market Regulation of China notified a draft of a mandatory national standard (GB) entitled “Household and similar electrical appliances – Energy saving and environmental protection specification” to the WTO and started collecting comments. The deadline for submitting comments… Read More »China notifies WTO of draft GB on recyclability calculation requirements for household appliances

The Environment Committee approved its recommendations to enhance the EU’s food and textile waste prevention and reduction efforts. With 72 votes in favor, 0 against, and 3 abstentions, MEPs(Member of European Parliament) in the Environment Committee approved their opinion on the proposed modification of the… Read More »New EU Law to Address Food Waste and Textiles, Supporting the Circular Economy

On February 4, 2024, the Ministry of Transport of China promulgated the revised “Regulation on the transport of dangerous goods by air”. The revised Regulation will take effect from July 1, 2024. The Regulation stipulates the restrictions, approvals, management of transportation manuals, responsibilities of shippers… Read More »China revises the regulation on the transport of dangerous goods by air

On December 27, 2023, Vietnam promulgated Circular No. 38/2023/TT-BCT on Measurement, Reporting and Verification of Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction in the Industry and Trade Sectors, which will enter into force on February 11, 2024. The Circular was formulated as one of… Read More »Vietnam promulgates new Circular on GHG inventory preparation in industry and trade sectors