The Senate on Thursday gave final approval to a bipartisan bill to crack down on imports from China's Xinjiang region, where Beijing is accused of using forced labor.
The Senate on Thursday gave final approval to a bipartisan bill to crack down on imports from China's Xinjiang region, where Beijing is accused of using forced labor.
June 7, 2021
The solar industry is in trouble: there is mounting evidence that the polysilicon produced in Xinjiang, the first step in the supply chain for solar photovoltaics, possibly uses forced labor. Given that Xinjiang now produces maybe half of the world’s polysilicon, there are no easy options to deal with this problem, at least in the short term. But this does not mean that the United States is powerless; instead, it requires the adoption of a more patient, targeted, multi-year response.
Today’s Predicament
The U.S. government and the U.S. solar industry have grappled with how to deal with this problem right now. The U.S. government has previously sanctioned people and entities in Xinjiang, and there are efforts to understand whether similar measures might be employed to stop polysilicon produced with forced labor from finding its way into solar cells and modules. The U.S. solar industry, for its part, has promoted a “Supply Chain Traceability Protocol” to improve
17/05/2021 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 17/05/2021 14:42
Birra Peroni is the first industrial organization to mint unique non-fungible tokens using EY OpsChain Traceability
EY OpsChain Traceability provides tokenization and notarization as a service on Ethereum blockchain for non-fungible tokens
Industrial companies can build customized supply chains and partner networks
New metadata standard proposed for tracking physical location of assets through tokens
EY today announced Birra Peroni, the Italian beer company part of Asahi Group, as the first industrial organization to use EY OpsChain Traceability to notarize information and tokenize goods leveraging non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on the Ethereum public blockchain. Birra Peroni is using EY OpsChain Traceability, an EY blockchain as-a-service offering on blockchain.ey.com to mint unique non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for each new batch of beer, enabling greater visibility and efficiency across its supply chain.