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Saving the planet through procurement: Governments are identifying ways to use purchasing to achieve and support sustainability goals

American City & Country

Sustainable government procurement is the process of acquiring goods and services that meet the government entity’s needs while minimizing environmental and social impacts. How they carry out that duty, therefore, can affect whether they can achieve their sustainable development goals.” Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) No.

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What does the German Supply Chain Act Mean for Procurement?

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The act was established to address issues of sustainability and ethical conduct in global supply chains, and has significant implications for companies and procurement organizations operating in Germany. Export and import of certain hazardous wastes. Production of mercury-added products, use of mercury and treatment of mercury waste.

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Another FTC rule is in trouble, at least industry hopes so

Federal News Network

This interim final rule is near and dear to my heart as someone who’s tracked export controls, and specifically, more recently, the AUKUS Trilateral Security Partnership very closely. There’s a process for creating the opportunity for re-exports and retransfers, etc. That’s what we’re looking at.

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Analyzing climate risk models on AWS to prevent future food insecurity in Nigeria

AWS Public Sector

I chatted with the organization’s chairman, Brendan Reilly, to learn how its Sustainable Africa Initiative (SAI) is empowering agricultural experts in Nigeria to analyze climate risk models on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to prevent future food insecurity in their local communities. Nigeria is the ninth largest exporter of oil in the world.

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Building NHM London’s Planetary Knowledge Base with Amazon Neptune and the Registry of Open Data on AWS

AWS Public Sector

Until now, museums like the UK’s Natural History Museum have had to manage their data in a series of data silos, curating and editing this data independently,” said Dr. After loading the data in the Neptune graph database, the data must be exported from the Neptune cluster to a customer-owned Amazon S3 bucket, chosen at export time.

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Hydrating the Natural History Museum’s Planetary Knowledge Base with Amazon Neptune and Open Data on AWS

AWS Public Sector

For a deep dive into this use case, also watch the re:Invent 2023 session on Building next-generation sustainability workloads with open data (SUS304). This publicly available data (via the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative , or ASDI) exists as parquet files and is stored in an Amazon Simple Storage Service ( Amazon S3 ) bucket.

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Scandinavian Tobacco Group Goes Live with Ivalua’s Platform to Accelerate Procurement Digital Transformation

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System will improve the experience for employees and suppliers while supporting sustainable growth in shareholder value. 11,000 employees across the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Nicaragua, Indonesia, Europe, the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Export markets.