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Most companies believe their supply chains are resilient, until disruption exposes the opposite. Then, resilience becomes critical to business continuity, credibility, and investor confidence. How do companies identify risks before they escalate? What does effective supply chain resilience actually look like in practice? Join Archana Kotecha, Chief Impact Officer at Diginex [NASDAQ: DGNX] and a recognised authority in human rights and supply chain due diligence, for a webinar series on closing the supply chain resilience gap. The session will explore: • where compliance frameworks break down in practice. • how companies can strengthen visibility, worker engagement and remediation systems. • what resilient organisations do differently during disruption. 🗓️June 2, 2026 | 1:00 pm BST Webinar Details: https://lnkd.in/edWqryPi Leaders and professionals interested in compliance, sustainability, procurement and supply chain resilience are all welcome to join!

Our Founder & CEO, Archana Kotecha, now also Diginex [NASDAQ: DGNX]’s newly appointed Chief Impact Officer, will be leading a new webinar series exploring how organisations can move beyond compliance-led approaches toward more resilient supply chain governance. First up is: 📅 Beyond Compliance: Closing the Supply Chain Resilience Gap June 2, 2026 | 1:00 pm BST The session will explore where compliance frameworks often fall short in practice, and what organisations can do to strengthen supply chain visibility, worker engagement, investigations, remediation, and reporting systems to identify and address risks before they escalate. As disruption across global supply chains becomes more frequent and complex, resilience increasingly depends not only on compliance, but on the ability to respond effectively when pressure hits. Register here: https://lnkd.in/gF8Wig7N #HumanRights #SupplyChainDueDiligence #SupplyChainResilience #ResponsibleBusiness

#BREAKING: 3 major shifts happened in Europe’s circular economy this week. And together, they signal something much bigger than a routine waste policy update. 1→ The EU officially launched DIWASS. The new Digital Waste Shipment System will allow waste shipments across the EU to be tracked electronically in real time. The platform is designed to replace fragmented paper-based procedures with a centralised digital infrastructure aimed at improving traceability, transparency, enforcement, and shipment visibility across member states. 2→ Cross-border waste movements are entering a new era of digital compliance. Under the revised Waste Shipment Regulation, notified waste shipments must now go through fully digital procedures under the Prior Informed Consent (PIC) system. This includes hazardous waste, mixed municipal waste, and contaminated waste streams, with the objective of accelerating approvals, strengthening monitoring capabilities, and reducing illegal waste trade. 3→ The EU tightened controls on plastic waste exports. From now on, plastic waste exports to third countries will require stricter approval procedures, with additional restrictions coming into force in 2026 for exports to non-OECD countries. The move reflects growing pressure around global waste accountability, resource security, and the environmental risks linked to uncontrolled plastic flows. Waste is no longer being treated purely as an environmental issue. Collectively, they point to a much larger transition taking place across Europe: • strategic resource issue • supply chain resilience • data and traceability matter • competitiveness strategic consideration The bigger shift here is that circular economy policy is becoming operational digital infrastructure. For businesses operating across manufacturing, recycling, logistics, ESG, materials, or industrial supply chains, this changes how resource flows will increasingly be monitored, governed, and scrutinised across the EU. Europe is not just regulating waste flows anymore, it is building visibility over material flows. Full regulation here: https://lnkd.in/e8ey5s5N #CircularEconomy #ESG #EURegulation

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Europe’s climate strategy is entering a far more complex phase and the latest carbon market proposal may be one of the clearest signals yet. The European Commission is considering expanding free permits under the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), potentially saving heavy industry around €4 billion in CO2 costs by 2030. For sectors such as steel, cement, and chemicals, the proposal could provide significant short-term relief for industry. But the implications go far beyond industrial costs. This reflects a broader shift in how Europe is approaching sustainability and decarbonisation policy. For years, Europe’s carbon market was built around a relatively simple principle: make emissions more expensive in order to accelerate the transition to a lower-carbon economy. Now the challenge is becoming more complex. Europe is increasingly trying to balance: • Climate ambition • Industrial competitiveness • Energy security • Geopolitical resilience And this is where the sustainability debate becomes much more complicated. While reducing carbon cost pressure may help protect industrial resilience and prevent investment from leaving Europe, it could also slow parts of the decarbonisation process itself. If industries face lower carbon costs: incentives to reduce emissions may weaken, investment in low-carbon technologies could slow, and the pace of sustainability progress may become more gradual than initially expected. At the same time, policymakers are recognising that climate policies may struggle to remain politically and economically sustainable over the long term if industries become globally uncompetitive. This is no longer only a climate discussion. It is now a debate about how Europe can continue advancing sustainability goals while maintaining industrial stability in an increasingly competitive global economy. The upcoming review of the carbon market in July could therefore become a defining moment not only for European industry, but also for the future pace and direction of sustainability progress across the region. #regulations #climatestrategy #policies #EU

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Germany’s heating transition may have reached a tipping point. Heat pumps have overtaken gas boilers as the best-selling heating technology in the country. In 2025, nearly half of all new heating systems sold in Germany were heat pumps, according to data from German Energy Agency (dena). What is the scale? Heat pumps accounted for 48% of new heating system sales last year, rising sharply from 27% the year before. Around 299,000 units were sold, while gas boilers fell to a 44% market share. This is more than a consumer trend. It is a structural signal about where Germany is moving in terms of energy resilience, electrification and long-term decarbonisation. Heating remains one of the most difficult sectors to decarbonise. More than half of Germany’s homes still rely on fossil gas, and the buildings sector has repeatedly missed emissions reduction targets. The acceleration of heat pump adoption changes the equation for: → Utilities and grid operators managing rising electricity demand. → Real estate portfolios facing energy efficiency pressure and asset transition risk. → Manufacturers and industrial suppliers exposed to heating technology demand shifts. → Investors assessing long-term exposure to fossil-dependent infrastructure. → Construction and retrofit markets adapting to electrified building systems. The transition also has implications for supply chains, critical materials, workforce skills and infrastructure investment across Europe’s built environment ecosystem. Another important signal is emerging alongside heat pumps: industrialised “serial renovation” models are gaining momentum. Faster, standardised retrofit processes could materially reduce renovation costs and accelerate emissions reductions in existing buildings, an area where progress has historically been slow. Germany’s heat pump market is not just an energy story. It is becoming an indicator of how quickly large industrial economies can operationalise building decarbonisation at scale. #decarbonisation #Germany #technology #regulations