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2021 C.E. June 28
New Zealand to ban most single-use plastics by 2025
The new measure builds on the country's 2019 decision to phase-out plastic bags and includes everything from disposable cutlery to ear buds and fruit labels, The Guardian reported.
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2021 C.E. June 28
Leading fashion brand Canada Goose goes fur-free
In a statement, Canada Goose has announced that it will be ending purchases of fur by the end of this year and will stop manufacturing fur products by the end of next year.
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2021 C.E. June 28
Canada to make online hate speech a crime punishable by $16,000 fine
The law is only designed to punish the most extreme forms of hatred that “expresses detestation or vilification of a person or group on the basis of a prohibited ground of discrimination.”
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2021 C.E. June 25
Museum in Dubai is first in the Arab world to exhibit Holocaust memorial
According to the museum’s founder, Ahmed Obaid AlMansoori, the opening of the museum is timely, as parts of the Middle East region open up and there is an effort being made towards normalizing relations between countries.
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2021 C.E. June 25
91 countries now offer COVID-19 vaccinations to refugees
To date, refugees and asylum-seekers have begun receiving vaccinations in 91 of the 162 countries that UN High Commissioner for Refugees has been monitoring.
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2021 C.E. June 25
World’s first lab-grown-meat factory opens in Israel
The factory will have the capacity to produce 1,100 lb of cultured chicken, pork and lamb each day, which is equivalent to around 5,000 burgers, and the company says beef products are on the way.
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2021 C.E. June 24
Volvo announces plan to develop fossil-free steel
In a bid to meet its stated “carbon free” goals, Volvo is teaming up with Swedish steel manufacturer SSAB and its HYBRIT initiative, which is being called “the industry’s most ambitious and advanced project” in terms of fossil-free steel development.
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2021 C.E. June 24
Gabon becomes first African country paid to protect its rainforest
The UN-backed Central African Forest Initiative (Cafi) has handed over $17m - the first tranche of a $150m deal struck in 2019.
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2021 C.E. June 24
South Korea’s three major insurers say will stop underwriting new coal power
The confirmation follows pressure from a network of civic groups named Korea Beyond Coal, which has advocated for a complete coal phase-out in Korea by 2030.
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2021 C.E. June 23
Oregon becomes third state in U.S. to legalize human composting
The bill will legalize what’s known as natural organic reduction, or what some refer to as human composting. The law goes into effect July 1, 2022.
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2021 C.E. August 23
Stanford becomes first university in the U.S. to go 100% renewable energy
Stanford will become "first research university to use 100% renewable electricity" by summer 2022, even after a wildfire burned one of its solar farms.
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2021 C.E. August 23
Israel is ending its ban on blood donation from queer men
Nitzan Horowitz, the out Minister of Health in Israel, proclaimed, “There’s no difference between one blood and the other. Discrimination against gays in donating blood is over.”
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2021 C.E. August 23
Hong Kong cracks down on wildlife trafficking
A new bill empowers law enforcement to go beyond prosecuting carriers and mules and instead crack down on the criminal syndicates responsible for illegal wildlife trafficking.
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2021 C.E. August 20
U.S. to erase student debt for those with severe disabilities
The Biden administration will automatically erase student loan debt for more than 300,000 Americans with severe disabilities that leave them unable to earn significant incomes. The move will wipe out more than $5.8 billion in debt.
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2021 C.E. August 20
Novel cement uses discarded clay to cut carbon footprint by two thirds
A research team from Germany's Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and Brazil's University of Pará has developed an alternative cement that drastically cuts emissions from production while meeting normal performance requirements.
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2021 C.E. August 20
First fossil-free steel delivered to Volvo cars in Sweden
HYBRIT — a joint venture between SSAB, Vattenfall, and mining company LKAB — aims to revolutionize a steel industry that, by some estimates, produces nearly 10% of all harmful greenhouse gas emissions.
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2021 C.E. August 19
Australia’s big four banks to stop lending to thermal coal mining and coal-fired power plants
The Commonwealth Bank, ANZ, Westpac, and National Australia Bank are closing their books on fossil fuel financing in response to shareholder pressure.
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2021 C.E. August 19
South Korea to grant legal status to animals to tackle abuse and abandonment
The amendment will make South Korea one of a handful of countries to recognize animals as beings, with a right to protection, enhanced welfare and respect for life.
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2021 C.E. August 19
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to ban toxic pesticide chlorpyrifos
Studies from Columbia University, University of California Berkeley, and other renowned institutions show that chlorpyrifos can damage the developing brains of children, causing reduced IQ, loss of working memory, and attention deficit disorders.
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2021 C.E. August 18
Child hunger rates in the U.S. slashed 24% after first round of Child Tax Credit payment
The percentage of American families with kids who report not having enough to eat fell dramatically after the first child tax credit payments were distributed last month, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau.