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2017 C.E. August 29
Kenya becomes latest African nation to ban plastic bags
Cameroon, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Mauritania and Malawi are among the countries that have adopted or announced such bans.
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2017 C.E. August 18
Sri Lanka to achieve 100% renewables by 2050
According to the report, Sri Lanka's installed electricity generation capacity needs will increase from 3,700MW to 34,000MW by 2050.
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2017 C.E. August 18
Japan acting on Sustainable Development Goals
The Environment Ministry is working to incorporate the goals into its policy reports and plans, while a growing number of companies are aligning their business and product strategies to the agenda.
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2017 C.E. August 17
U.S. wind and solar power helped prevent up to 12,700 deaths
The lower carbon emissions were worth billions of dollars as a result of the avoidance of the range of problems caused by fossil fuels.
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2017 C.E. August 17
Baltimore removes Confederate statues
Statues dedicated to Confederate heroes were swiftly removed across Baltimore, just days after violence broke out over the removal of a similar monument in neighboring Virginia.
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2017 C.E. August 16
U.K. pledges £100m to global efforts to eradicate polio
Money will fund vaccination of 45 million children annually until 2020, when the world could finally be declared polio-free
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2017 C.E. August 16
Indianapolis City-County Council votes to increase minimum wage for county, city employees
The 22-2 vote allowed minimum wage to be set at $13 per hour.
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2017 C.E. August 15
The Uruguayan government is drafting a law to pay reparations to transgender people
The general assembly is currently reviewing a proposal that will create scholarships, set up affirmative action, and allow people to change their name and sex on official documents without approval from a judge.
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2017 C.E. August 15
Primark makes sustainable cotton permanent fixture
Primark has made sustainable cotton a permanent fixture in its stores with the launch of its first sustainable cotton pyjamas for women.
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2017 C.E. August 15
More CEOs quit Trump advisory council After Merck chief resigns over Charlottesville
Multiple members of the White House manufacturing council have resigned in protest this week over President Donald Trump's botched response to a deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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2017 C.E. October 18
European spending on energy efficient building technologies in 2026 to near $112 billion
The European market for energy efficient building technologies is expected to grow from $83.5 billion in 2017 to $111.9 billion in 2026.
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2017 C.E. October 18
Globally, broad support for representative and direct democracy
More than half in each of the nations polled consider representative democracy a very or somewhat good way to govern their country.
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2017 C.E. October 17
1400 companies now put an internal price on carbon
That number is an impressive leap, as it amounts to an eight-fold increase from 2014.
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2017 C.E. October 17
Korean workers launch major wave of strikes, winning international support
Over the past few weeks, thousands of South Korean transport workers have gone on strike to protest against government "reform" proposals that would make it easier for employers to fire workers, weaken seniority protections won through collective bargaining and privatize some state-owned industries.
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2017 C.E. October 16
European Union and India partner on Paris Agreement implementation
India and the European Union (EU) have issued a joint statement on clean energy and climate change, pledging to step up cooperation to enhance implementation of the Paris Agreement on climate change and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
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2017 C.E. October 16
Google to give $1 billion to nonprofits and help Americans get jobs in the new economy
Google will make grants in its three core areas: education, economic opportunity and inclusion. Already in the last few months, it has handed out $100 million of the $1 billion to nonprofits.
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2017 C.E. October 13
38% of Fortune 50 companies now publicly support the Sustainable Development Goals
An impressive 38 percent of the F50 have made a public commitment to support the SDGs.
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2017 C.E. October 13
California DISCLOSE Act signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown to combat dark money
Today, Governor Jerry Brown signed into law the landmark California DISCLOSE Act (AB 249), the nation's most comprehensive election disclosure law.
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2017 C.E. October 12
BNP Paribas plans to stop working with shale oil players and shift to renewable investments
"We're a long-standing partner to the energy sector and we're determined to support the transition to a more sustainable world,"