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2019 C.E. December 24
World-leading ivory ban becomes law in the U.K.
The act will introduce a total ban on dealing in items containing elephant ivory, regardless of their age, within the U.K., including export from or import to the U.K..
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2019 C.E. December 24
Washington D.C passes bill to run on 100% renewable energy by 2032
Washington D.C has unanimously passed a bill to ensure the state runs on 100 per cent renewable energy by 2032.
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2019 C.E. December 24
E.U. agrees deal on single-use plastic ban
The single-use plastic ban was introduced earlier this year and yesterday the European commission agreed a deal to set the ban in place.
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2019 C.E. December 18
Coca-Cola supports Ioniqa to accelerate recycled PET development
The investment will help Coca-Cola to support its world without waste initiative, which is designed to develop packaging with around 50% recycled material by 2030.
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2018 C.E. December 18
Australia just cut 80% of its plastic bag use in 3 months
When Australia's two largest supermarket chains banned plastic bags three months ago, it led to an 80 percent reduction in the country's overall consumption of plastic bags.
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2018 C.E. December 17
Wilmar International, the world’s largest palm oil trader, officially ramps up zero-deforestation efforts
Greenpeace, which has long pressured the palm oil giant to monitor its suppliers across all of their operations, hailed the move as a "potential breakthrough."
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2018 C.E. December 17
U.K. Government invests £100 million in renewable energy projects in Africa
The projects funded by the new investment could help cut carbon emissions equivalent to those created by 800,000 cars a year.
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2018 C.E. December 17
Corona switches to vegan, plastic-free beer can rings
The popular beer company Corona is to become the first global brand to trial fully plastic-free six-pack can rings made from plant-based, biodegradable fibers.
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2018 C.E. December 17
All new public buses in California have to be electric by 2029
By the year 2029, all new mass transit buses in the whole state will have to be fully electric, according to a new rule adopted unanimously by the California Air Resources Board (CARB).
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2018 C.E. December 13
More than 680 GW of new wind power to come online by 2027
More than 680 gigawatts (GW) of new wind power is expected to come online around the globe in the next decade, more than doubling current capacity, according to new research from Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables.
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2019 C.E. February 13
Earth has more tree and leaf coverage now than in 2000, thanks to China and India
According to U.S. NASA, there are now more than 2 million sq miles of extra leaf area per year, compared with the early 2000s -- a 5% increase. The greening effect stems mainly from ambitious tree-planting and intensive farming in China and India.
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2019 C.E. February 12
11.9 GW of wind capacity installed in the Americas in 2018
Total installed wind capacity in North, Central, and South America increased to 135 gigawatts (GW) in 2018 with the addition of 11.9 GW of new wind capacity, an increase of 12% on 2017.
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2019 C.E. February 12
Scientists are using AI to find hotel rooms being used for child sex trafficking
Washington University engineers developed AI that recognizes features of a hotel room from a photo and identify where it may have been taken, offering new leads to fight child trafficking.
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2019 C.E. February 11
Drax begins capturing carbon in ‘world first’ pilot
The Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering have estimated that Drax could capture 50 million tonnes of carbon per year by 2050 - about half the nation's emissions target.
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2019 C.E. February 11
Pro-LGBTQ laws in the United States outpaced anti-LGBTQ laws in 2018, report finds
Last year, 21 of the 201 pro-LGBTQ bills introduced in state legislatures became law, while just two of the 110 anti-LGBTQ bills did, according to HRC's recently released 2018 State Equality Index.
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2019 C.E. February 10
Grid-scale solar power tripled in Australia in 2018 as renewables met 20% of energy output
"2018 will go down as the year that fossil fuels began an inexorable decline in Australia's electricity supply."
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2019 C.E. February 10
Japanese city of Otsu is using AI to prevent youth suicides
The hope is that the AI will allow school officials to identify the bullying cases that are likely to escalate in seriousness so that they can intervene and diffuse the situation before it's too late.
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2019 C.E. February 10
Researchers use healthy stem cells for future Type 1 diabetes cure for the first time
For the first time ever, researchers have successfully transformed human stem cells into mature insulin-producing cells, a major breakthrough in the effort to develop a cure for type 1 (T1) diabetes.
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2019 C.E. February 9
Plug-in electric car sales skyrocket in China
2018 PEV sales in China ended at over a million units. For some context, 2017 was the first year that plug-ins reached 1 million sales globally.
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2019 C.E. February 9
The U.S. Postal Service begins piloting its first ever all-electric vans
The first vehicle in the 1-year pilot is already running parcels around in Fresno, California, with 3 of the remaining vehicles planned for deployment in Fresno and the 3 remaining vehicles being deployed in Stockton later this year.