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2022 C.E. January 12
Israel lifts surrogacy ban for same-sex parents
The new law will also grant equal access to surrogate pregnancy for all, including single men and transgender individuals.
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2022 C.E. January 12
Belgium enshrines the “right to disconnect” for government workers
Bosses won’t be able contact employees outside of work hours except in exceptional circumstances, according to a proposed law for civil servants in Belgium.
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2022 C.E. January 11
Canada pledges billions of dollars to compensate Indigenous children
$15.75 billion USD will be allotted to Indigenous children who were unfairly placed in the welfare system, faced delays in accessing services, or did not receive them at all.
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2022 C.E. January 11
World’s first pig-to-human heart transplant performed in U.S.
The patient is currently still alive, has not rejected the pig organ and is being carefully monitored at the University of Maryland Medical Center.
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2022 C.E. January 10
Psilocybin clinical trial confirms safety of group psychedelic sessions
A new study published in the The Journal of Psychopharmacology found no detrimental effects from simultaneous administration of the drug.
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2022 C.E. January 10
Girls in Seychelles to receive free sanitary products
Sanitary products will be made available free of charge to all girls in Seychelles in both state and private secondary schools as of the new school year in January 2022.
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2022 C.E. January 10
U.K. to pardon all past convictions of consensual homosexual activity
The new amendment will pardon any conviction over homosexual activity that is no longer a crime today and that did not involve anyone under the age of 16.
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2022 C.E. January 9
NASA fully deploys world’s most powerful space telescope
NASA partnered with the European and Canadian space agencies to build and launch the new 7-ton telescope, with thousands of people from 29 countries working on it since the 1990s.
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2022 C.E. January 9
Psychedelics approved for medical use in Canada
Health Canada’s change to federal regulations makes restricted drugs psilocybin and MDMA more realistic alternatives to patients suffering life-threatening mental illnesses.
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2022 C.E. January 9
LEGO to build its first carbon neutral factory in Vietnam
The factory will cost over $1 billion and aims to create 4,000 jobs over the next 15 years after production on the factory line begins in 2024. Construction will start in the latter half of 2022.
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2022 C.E. February 17
Detroit is the first U.S. city getting an EV-charging road
Previously, gas-guzzling cars have been more convenient and able to travel longer distances. Now with on-the-road charging, electric vehicles will be even more convenient: you won't even have to stop to refuel!
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2022 C.E. February 17
Scientists have likely cured HIV in a woman for the first time
Following a cutting-edge treatment four years ago, the “New York patient” is now off of HIV medication and remains “asymptomatic and healthy,” researchers say.
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2022 C.E. February 17
Kuwait overturns law used to prosecute transgender people
The law had criminalized “imitation of the opposite sex”, giving Kuwaiti authorities free rein to arrest and prosecute people whose appearance did not match the gender on their official identification card.
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2022 C.E. February 16
Reported crime in Japan hits postwar low for seventh year running
According to the National Police Agency, the number of reported crimes in 2021 decreased by 7.5% year on year to 568,148, setting a new postwar record for the seventh consecutive year.
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2022 C.E. February 16
Israel formally bans LGBTQ+ conversion therapy
While the Health Ministry has advised against conversion therapy for years, no formal prohibition had been issued against the practice until now.
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2022 C.E. February 14
Judge restores protections for gray wolves across much of U.S.
U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White in Oakland, California, said the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service had failed to show wolf populations could be sustained in the Midwest and portions of the West without protection under the Endangered Species Act.
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2022 C.E. February 14
California lifts renewable energy target to 73% by 2032
The California Public Utilities Commission raised renewable energy procurement targets, plans for a more aggressive decarbonization plan, and includes increased reliability provisions.
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2022 C.E. February 14
U.S. to install roughly 400,000 EV chargers along its highways
The U.S. Departments of Energy and Transportation announced that they will dedicate $5 billion over the next five years to the project.
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2022 C.E. February 14
Women-led, green businesses begin to sprout up in Ukraine
The U.N. migration agency IOM launched a pilot project called “Sustainably Made in Ukraine” in 2020, which led to the country's first voluntary Corporate Sustainability Standard for small and medium-sized enterprises.
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2022 C.E. February 13
Plant-based meat will be more affordable than animal meat sooner than expected
Price is the second most important factor in purchasing a plant-based product so the price of these products needs to drop for them to gain wider market share, as VegNews states.