Corporate adoption of renewables has been lukewarm at best in Singapore. This study aims to identify the drivers and barriers to renewable procurement, establish key criteria for renewable energy ...certificates (RECs, a type of renewable energy product), and recommend policies to accelerate corporate renewable energy adoption in Singapore. We surveyed seven drivers, 12 barriers, nine criteria of RECs, and 11 actions for REC adoption with 35 experienced professionals from major business sectors in Singapore. The top three drivers of corporate renewable procurement were to meet corporate sustainability goals, reduce energy procurement costs, and demonstrate corporate leadership. The most concerning criterion of RECs was traceability that RECs must be generated and transacted through a REC tracking system endorsed by the government or a third party. The most significant barrier to REC adoption was the lack of awareness of RECs and their benefits. Plausible actions to address the barriers include seeking support from senior management, establishing corporate sustainability targets, developing national standards for RECs, promoting successful local business cases, and for government to endorse private-sector REC tracking system(s). The findings could raise corporate awareness and assist policymakers in formulating policies, infrastructure, and initiatives to accelerate renewable energy adoption in Singapore.
This study aims to determine the strategy of the village government in optimizing the achievement of ownership of birth cerificates with a focus on the management function and strategy management. ...This study used descriptive qualitative method. The research instrument was the researcher itself using primary and secondary data sources. Data collection techniques used were observation, interviews and documentation. The strategy of the Kalisidi village government was based more on management functions (planning, organizing, directing and controlling) and supported by strategic management. Planning started with regional mapping, team planning, team preparation planning, socialization planning and evaluation planning. Organizing was done by forming a team of hamlet and RT heads as the person in charge of the hamlet and the administrative staff as the village coordinator. Directing and controlling the team did not experience difficulties because each team had done the activity well. The obstacle of analyzing the external environment were the distance and the people's livelihood. Through this combination can produce solutions and solutions for the implementation of further activities.
Notaries as one of the public officials who are vulnerable to disputes in the agrarian sector as a consequence of negligence in carrying out their duties and authorities. This research uses the ...method of juridical analysis of the norms and legal customs that exist in the community public and analytical descriptive of the responsibilities of a notary and court decisions. The results of the study indicate that there is negligence and unlawful behavior carried out by both an appearer and the notary himself. This can be seen in the Decision of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Indonesia, Supreme Court Decision No. 185 PK/Pid/2010, the Notary was sentenced based on Article 263 paragraph (1) of the Criminal Code (KUHP) Juncto Article 55 paragraph (1) to the- 1 The Criminal Code (KUHP), which imposes penalties on notaries for falsifying documents. In this case, the Notary as a State official and serving as law enforcement is dealing with the law for actions that he did not commit, as a result of the parties submitting the deed by bringing fake letters or documents. While the Notary argued that his party did not know that the documents received from his client were fake. So that, there is a void of legal norms in the Notary Position Act relating to legal protection and the responsibility of the Notary in making the deed based on data and information falsified by the parties. Therefore, it is necessary to have justice and legal certainty that can solve these problems.
This study aims to determine the legal protection of uncertified waqf land in Indonesia. This research uses descriptive analysis, which describes the fact or certain legal events that occur in ...society. The result of this research is that waqf land that does not have a certificate can be protected by law. It is a waqf land that meets the terms and conditions and can be proven, judges of the Religious Court are of the opinion that the waqf land without a certificate can be guaranteed its protection with the Wakaf Pledge Deed and witnesses and evidence. other written documents that clearly explain the position of the donated land. The public is of the opinion that a waqf will be guaranteed protection when it has been used for religious purposes or other public interests. In the future, it is hoped that all parties will have a correct understanding of the procedures and processes of waqf, that waqf is not only up to having AIW but waqf land must be registered with the National Land Agency and have a certificate to guarantee its legal protection.Keywords: Waqf; Certificate; Religious Court.
Purpose: The study aims (1) to explore the comprehension and implementation of halal certification essence from the producers perspective of MSMEs, and (2) to make the model to apply the halal ...certification essence to MSMEs.
Design/methodology/approach: This study used qualitative methods with Hussel's phenomenological approach. This research takes a setting in East Java. The data analysis is the Interactive Model Analysis from Miles and Huberman.
Findings: The results showed indicate that the comprehension and implementation of halal certification essence from a producer's perspective of MSMEs in East Java is still relatively low. There are many MSMEs do not have certificates even though they understand the importance of halal certificates. The phenomenon at MSME producers showed that theoretically the halal certificates refers to the first basis set by Islam, namely the origin of something created by Allah is halal and permissible.
Research limitations/implications: The samples and findings are exclusively to MSMEs that very supportive in determining informants and research clusters based on MSME industry groups
Practical implications: Local governments should conduct training or coaching on positive mental strength, financial management, financial management literacy, risk management training, promotion and marketing strategy training and tourism management training. These trainings need to be done in order MSMEs have the competence and the comprehension on halal certification as one of capabilities of a good promotion The strategy and marketing strategy
Social Implications: The training pattern should use a mentoring system by involving academics. The training to MSMEs should be done routinely. Training should be maintained properly at intervals, coordination and cooperation between the government and entrepreneurs.
Originality/value: The research originality is shown by the MSMEs comprehension and mapping of halal certification as well as models to implement the halal certification essence in form of MUI regulations, MUI supervision, producer aspects and increased awareness of MSMEs in essence halal certification to supports the development of MSMEs.
•EU policy efforts on energy efficiency in buildings stared in the 1970s in response to the oil crisis.•The first comprehensive EU policy was the SAVE directive in 1992, introducing policy actions ...still relevant today.•A major step forward was the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive in 2002 and its subsequent amendments.•Mandatory energy performance standards are progressively converging towards near zero energy buildings.•Additional policies and financing are needed for the full decarbonisation of the building stock.
The reduction of energy demand in buildings through the adoption of energy efficiency policy is a key pillar of the European Union (EU) climate and energy strategy. Energy efficiency first emerged in the EU energy policy agenda in the 1970s and was progressively transformed with shifting global and EU energy and climate policies and priorities. The paper offers a review of EU energy policies spanning over the last half century with a focus on policy instruments to encourage measures on energy efficiency in new and existing buildings. Starting from early policies set by the EU in response to the Oil Embargo in the 1973, the paper discusses the impact of EU policies in stimulating energy efficiency improvements in the building sector ranging from the SAVE Directive to the recently 2018 updated Energy Performance of Buildings Directive and Energy Efficiency Directive. The review explores the progress made over the last 50 years in addressing energy efficiency in buildings and highlights successes as well as remaining challenges. It discusses the impact of political priorities in reshaping how energy efficiency is addressed by EU policymakers, leading to a holistic approach to buildings, and provides insights and suggestions on how to further exploit the EU potential to save energy from buildings.
Halal certification assures that a product or a service has been created, processed, and delivered according to Islamic laws. Currently, the certificate is printed on a security paper and includes a ...QR code that can be used to verify the certificate online. However, there are some problems with the ongoing certificate verification process. The verification site is centralized, creating a single point of failure. The current verification system is also unable to detect the modified printed certificate. The research aims to propose an alternative halal certificate recording and verification system. A smart contract that runs on the Ethereum blockchain is developed and deployed for that purpose. As a result, the average certificate creation cost is US$20.035, and the process requires 5.75 seconds, while verification is free, and the result can be obtained in about one second. Utilizing the blockchain to store and verify the halal certificate increases trust in the product or service since once the data is stored, it cannot be changed and accessible to the public. Nodes around the world replicate the blockchain to ensure service availability. For future consideration, the system can be extended to automate and track the halal application process and integrated as an alternative to the current system by implementing multiple signatures in the smart contract for each party. Furthermore, the system can be integrated with a peer-to-peer sharing system such as IPFS to store the digital certificate
The security of the web improved greatly throughout the last couple of years. A large majority of the web is now served encrypted as part of HTTPS, and web browsers accordingly moved from positive to ...negative security indicators that warn the user if a connection is insecure. A secure connection requires that the server presents a valid certificate that binds the domain name in question to a public key. A certificate used to be valid if signed by a trusted Certificate Authority (CA), but web browsers like Google Chrome and Apple’s Safari have additionally started to mandate Certificate Transparency (CT) logging to overcome the weakest-link security of the CA ecosystem. Tor and the Firefox-based Tor Browser have yet to enforce CT.
In this paper, we present privacy-preserving and incrementally-deployable designs that add support for CT in Tor. Our designs go beyond the currently deployed CT enforcements that are based on blind trust: if a user that uses Tor Browser is man-in-the-middled over HTTPS, we probabilistically detect and disclose cryptographic evidence of CA and/or CT log misbehavior. The first design increment allows Tor to play a vital role in the overall goal of CT: detect mis-issued certificates and hold CAs accountable. We achieve this by randomly cross-logging a subset of certificates into other CT logs. The final increments hold misbehaving CT logs accountable, initially assuming that some logs are benign and then without any such assumption. Given that the current CT deployment lacks strong mechanisms to verify if log operators play by the rules, exposing misbehavior is important for the web in general and not just Tor. The full design turns Tor into a system for maintaining a probabilistically-verified view of the CT log ecosystem available from Tor’s consensus. Each increment leading up to it preserves privacy due to and how we use Tor.
Public views on the Covid‐19 immunity certificate: A scoping review Barello, Serena; Acampora, Marta; Paleologo, Michele ...
Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy,
December 2022, Volume:
25, Issue:
6
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
Introduction
Already in its first implementation, the introduction of the Covid‐19 immunity certificate has generated some debate among the public. This debate might be a hindrance to the effective ...realization of this policy. This study aimed to systematically review published research evaluating public feeling of the Covid‐19 immunity certificate policy measure and to find which factors might influence its acceptance.
Methods
We followed the scoping review methods manual by the Joanna Briggs Institute. We included studies with no time limits that presented novel data, and no exclusions have been made based on study design. We excluded articles that presented just expert opinions.
Results
We found and reviewed 17 articles. The included studies were conducted in two main countries (the United Kingdom and Switzerland), with the rest from Israel, Italy, Spain, Germany, Australia, Taiwan and China. Both qualitative and quantitative studies were included, and nonrepresentative samples were mostly used to explore the public feeling about the Covid‐19 immunity certification. The included studies showed that public views on immunity certification are quite contradictory and influenced by age, gender, ethnicity, political orientation and attitudes towards Covid‐19 vaccination. The topic more often addressed by the included studies was the public's views on the positive and negative implications of the Covid‐19 immunity certificate in terms of ethical, legal and behavioural consequences of this measure.
Conclusion
The varying acceptance rates are notable and may partly be linked to differences in demographics, Covid‐19 concerns and ideological beliefs, as seen in other health‐related tracking policies. Moreover, dominant factors behind the (un)success of this policy are complex and entangled with the cultural and political dimensions rather than being just technical. For this reason, it is important to expand psychosocial research to better understand the concerns behind health certifications and allow planning of culturally based and ethically sound suitable strategies. This would be very relevant to increasing public approval and compliance with this public health measure.
Patient or Public Contribution
This does not apply to our work as it was a review paper.
Blockchain in Land Registry Amri, Fauzi; Sihombing, Poltak; Efendi, Syahril
Prisma sains (Online),
01/2023, Volume:
11, Issue:
1
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
Blockchain technology that is increasingly developing can be a solution to land disputes. By designing a land title certificate system based on Blockchain technology, which has complete verification ...and recording of data history. So that it can help the government's efforts in Agrarian Reform. This research resulted in a system of recording of data history of Land Certificate. that can prove the Blockchain concept where every change that occurs in land title certificate data can be recorded, and distributed to all participants involved in the system.
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