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KUALA LUMPUR, June 23 (Bernama) — INNIO, a leading energy solution and service provider, has published its Sustainability Report for 2021 Together Towards Zero, which defines the company’s performance in meeting environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals.

While INNIO is currently empowering industries and communities to transition to net zero, this report – prepared in accordance with GRI and SASB standards – formally communicates on progress and sustainability-related performance providing, transparency about how INNIO is contributing to a green tomorrow.

In a statement, INNIO chief executive officer Dr Olaf Berlien states: “I’m incredibly proud of the steps we have taken to implement our ESG strategy.

“The outstanding recognition we have received for our achievements with leading ESG ratings shows that we are on the right track on our path to net zero.”

In accordance with global frameworks and commitments, INNIO set out ambitious sustainability targets in three strategic focus areas where it sees the most material impacts and opportunities for improvement: Low Carbon and Circular Products, Resilient Supply Chain and Manufacturing, and Responsible Operations and Social Responsibility.

Selected key ambitions in these areas include INNIO offering since 2022, all new engines with a ‘Ready for H2’ option; imperative that suppliers covering 80 per cent of direct and indirect spend commit to net zero by 2050; and, by 2025, an increase of identified diversity groups by 25 per cent across functions compared to the 2020 baseline.

INNIO’s 2021 Sustainability Report is a non-financial disclosure published annually, prepared in accordance with the standards of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) core option and the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB).

INNIO is headquartered in Jenbach (Austria).

For more information, visit http://www.innio.com.

— BERNAMA

KUALA LUMPUR, June 14 (Bernama) — Impulse Dynamics, a commercial-stage medical device company focused on delivering CCM therapy to people with heart failure, announced that the first implants in Europe for the newly launched Optimizer® Smart Mini device were recently completed in Italy.

According to a statement, the company announced the launch of the new technology on April 29, 2022, and the first U.S. implants on May 10, 2022.

In March 2022, the company announced that its quality management system received certification under the new European Union Medical Device Regulation.

The new components of the Optimizer Smart Mini system are equally important across international markets, including a rechargeable battery with a 20-year life and new internal technology with improved programming and potential for remote monitoring in a smaller design to make the implant procedure easier for patients and physicians.

“The pace of this international rollout is a reflection of our commitment to delivering innovation that is relevant to patients worldwide,” said Mateusz Zelewski, MD, Impulse Dynamics’ Vice President International.

“It is exciting to see how quickly we can increase access to new and better technology that offers hope for more patients living with heart failure.”

The Optimizer Smart Mini delivers CCM therapy, which consists of electric pulses applied to the heart between heartbeats and serves to enhance the performance of cardiac muscular contraction, making the heart work more efficiently without increasing the heart rate or the oxygen consumption of the cardiac muscle.

CCM therapy is currently indicated in Europe to reduce hospitalisations and improve physical exercise tolerance, quality of life, and functional status for a large population of patients with systolic heart failure who remain symptomatic despite guideline-directed medical therapy.

To date, CCM therapy has already been used to treat over 7,000 patients worldwide and is available in 44 countries. The therapy has been studied in almost 2,000patients and has appeared in more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles.

More details at http://www.ImpulseDynamics.com.

— BERNAMA

HAIKOU, China, June 13, 2022 /Xinhua-AsiaNet/–
 
With the upcoming Cultural and Natural Heritage Day taking place on June 11, the southernmost province of China, Hainan, is now hosting and organizing various forms of intangible cultural heritage activities to celebrate, exhibit, and promote the splendid traditional cultures in three venues set up in Haikou, Sanya, and Danzhou, according to Department of Tourism, Culture, Radio, Television and Sports of Hainan Province.

On June 7, the Hainan Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage Fine Arts Exhibition commenced at the Hainan Provincial Museum, covering a wide variety of categories of art such as Chinese painting, oil painting, printmaking, watercolor painting, wood carving, coconut carving, paper cutting and cotton weaving. A total of 106 works of art embodied the charming intangible cultural heritage and received the appreciation of the audience.

The 2022 Hainan Intangible Heritage Shopping Festival is scheduled to be held in Haikou on June 11. Visitors can not only enjoy shopping for exquisite handicrafts at the intangible cultural heritage fair but also attend festival activities online through Hainan Intangible Cultural Heritage’s TikTok and Little Red Book accounts and on the following website: https://www.hainanfp.com/.

As a world-renowned coastal tourist city, Sanya integrates fashion into intangible heritage at its venue. About 100 craftsmen demonstrate Li Brocade skills and performers present fashion shows featuring Li Brocade costumes on site. Themed performances of intangible heritage are also staged one after another, immersing the audience in the charm of the artistic integration between intangible heritage and modern life.

Danzhou highlights the distinctive features of local intangible heritage with themed celebrations where cities and counties from western Hainan bring their intangible heritage performances to the stage. Residents and tourists alike celebrate at the music carnival together with Danzhou Folk Songs, Danzhou Military Songs, Danzhou Miao Nationality Folk Songs, and Danzhou Cantonese Folk Songs.

Hainan now has 32 representative projects of national intangible heritage, 82 representative projects of provincial intangible heritage, and over 300 representative projects of city-level and county-level intangible heritage.

During 2022 Cultural and Natural Heritage Day, Hainan will host more than 160 online and offline publicity events to raise awareness of the need to protect intangible cultural heritage.

Source: Department of Tourism, Culture, Radio, Television and Sports of Hainan Province

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Caption: Teachers teaching intangible cultural heritage skills

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KUALA LUMPUR, June 9 (Bernama) — Global Liver Institute (GLI) calls attention to NASH by leading the 5th annual International NASH Day on June 9.

NASH (nonalcoholic steatohepatitis) is a serious, progressive condition in which too much fat accumulates on the liver, leading to its inflammation and injury. It is the severe form of NAFLD (nonalcoholic fatty liver disease).

“With over a hundred million people worldwide already who have NASH and several times more in the earlier stages, people have reason to know about this progressive condition and what they can do today to combat it,” said Donna R. Cryer, president and CEO of GLI in a statement.

“Collective action is imperative to be certain that individuals in each community, no matter their background or environment, are informed and equipped to prevent fatty liver disease. The momentum that we build together today must advance and sustain the global fight against NASH.”

The number of people with this advanced liver disease is expected to double by 2030, but #NASHday aims to prevent this growth.

Join the movement to #StopNASHNow by listening in as 24 expert panelists globally share the latest updates about the disease or adding to the conversation on social media (#NASHday). The movement permeates the globe through many locally-organised events to educate about, screen for, and prevent NASH.

Modern lifestyle and dietary patterns have contributed to increased prevalence of NASH and NAFLD worldwide, and it is becoming the most common cause of liver disease. Given its widespread impact and the possibility of prevention in most cases of this disease, NASH emerges as a global health priority.

This year, GLI and its partners join with the theme to #StopNASHNow: Even as therapies for NASH are being developed, there are many steps that people and their doctors can take today to prevent, reverse, or slow the progression of fatty liver disease.

International NASH Day has garnered the endorsement of prominent organisations globally, with among others, American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD); Association of Black Gastroenterologists and Hepatologists (ABGH); and, Asociación Latinoamericana para el Estudio del Hígado (ALEH).

— BERNAMA

KUALA LUMPUR, June 8 (Bernama) — Global Fishing Watch has developed and publicly released the first ever global map of previously undetected dark fleets, or vessels that do not broadcast their location or appear in public monitoring systems.

Powered by satellite radar imagery and machine learning, the map layer is updated daily within the main Global Fishing Watch map application.

The portal is available for free to anyone in the world with an internet connection, helping arm authorities, researchers and the public alike with the power to monitor vessel activity in all coastal waters, identify dark fleet patterns and build the necessary understanding to quantify threats to the ocean.

The user-friendly new map layer helps create equitable access to marine-related data in time for World Ocean Day on June 8.

“It is surprising how little we have known to date, about the true scale of human activity on the water,” said David Kroodsma, director of research and innovation at Global Fishing Watch in a statement.

“If you combine vessels that intentionally shut off their signal with the significant number of boats that don’t make their whereabouts known in public systems at all, you end up with gaps in data, monitoring and accountability.

“We are using satellite radar imagery to reduce that information gap and put our findings at the fingertips of those who want to ensure our ocean is managed equitably and sustainably.”

The new global map layer draws from a massive data-processing pipeline and uses machine learning to crunch petabytes, or millions of gigabytes, of radar imagery taken by the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-1 satellites.

By analysing the entire archive of Sentinel-1 radar imagery, Global Fishing Watch has made 20 million detections of sea-going vessels greater than approximately 10 metres in length—and matched these detections to 100 billion GPS points from vessels broadcasting their position on the automatic identification system.

Amplifying the potential of satellite radar technology, Global Fishing Watch partnered with the Defense Innovation Unit in July 2021 to host the xView3 competition. The challenge invited machine learning developers from all over the world to create and submit computer algorithms to help detect dark vessels, drawing 1,900 registrants from 67 countries.

Global Fishing Watch is an international nonprofit organisation dedicated to advancing ocean governance through increased transparency of human activity at sea.

— BERNAMA