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Leveraging the UN Transparency Protocol for Sustainable Trade

Future-Proofing for Interoperability

By The Aeolian

As sustainability becomes a cornerstone of global trade compliance, companies must adopt data strategies that not only meet regulatory requirements but also build trust through secure and verifiable information exchange. Future-proofing digital systems in this context means ensuring that environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data is accurate, auditable, and interoperable across borders.

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From Compliance to Opportunity (Part 2)

Continuing Upstream the Value Chain

By Michael Shea and Nis Jespersen

As we expand our clothing value chain example, we might also see that there are two sources of yarn going into the fabric production. For the fabric to be organic, its source yarn must also be. So we see here how Organic Conformity Credentials are provided for both.

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From Compliance to Opportunity

Navigating the UNTP Digital Product Passport Ecosystem

By: Michael Shea and Nis Jespersen

Digital Product Passports are probably about to become part of your everyday life. Whether because you are based in the European Union, or selling products that are being exported to the European Union. Or simply because you are a responsible consumer, concerned that the material is actually organic and that no child labour was used in the manufacturing

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