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2023 C.E.
May 5 Starting in 2026, new buildings under seven stories won’t be allowed to include stoves, furnaces or water heaters that burn gas and other fossil fuels. Larger buildings are required to comply starting in 2029.
2023 C.E.
May 3 Indigenous land recognition in Brazil is back — and the six territories President Lula signed in May 2023 represent something bigger than their 1.5 million acres. Research shows that formally recognized Indigenous lands lose native vegetation at a fraction of the rate of private land, making demarcation one of the most effective forest-protection tools Brazil has. Still, the signings fell short of the 14 territories advocates expected, and a legal doctrine pending before Brazil's...
2023 C.E.
May 3 The first of its kind in the world, the e-motorway that charges EVs while they drive may lead to an expansion of a further 3,000 km of electric roads in Sweden by 2045.
2023 C.E.
May 3 Japan's first abortion pill won approval in 2023, and clinical trials there showed 93% of participants had a complete abortion within 24 hours using the two-pill combination. Until that vote, Japan had been one of the last developed nations offering only surgical options, including a method the World Health Organization calls obsolete. The ministry took the unusual step of opening a public comment period before deciding, drawing strong responses from doctors and advocates who...
2023 C.E.
May 2 Under the new reform, Indigenous communities will receive 5% of a mining operation’s profits. Concessions will no longer be granted in areas with water shortages or in protected areas.
2023 C.E.
May 1 The ban applies to all semiautomatic rifles less than 30 inches in length, as well as other semiautomatic firearms with features such as thumbhole stocks and additional hand grips.
2023 C.E.
May 2 India's push to green its aviation sector is one of the most ambitious infrastructure-scale clean energy commitments any major economy has attempted. Delhi's airport alone has cut an estimated 200,000 tonnes of CO2 per year by switching to hydropower, and Mumbai followed with a renewable mix of solar, wind, and hydro. The effort builds on Cochin International Airport's decade-old proof of concept as the world's first fully solar-powered commercial airport. Still, financing and technology...
2023 C.E.
May 2 Women voted at the Vatican's Synod of Bishops for the first time in October 2023, after Pope Francis rewrote the rules to seat them as full participants. Five religious sisters joined five priests as voting representatives for religious orders, and Francis appointed 70 non-bishop members to the synod, asking that half be women. The meeting itself grew out of a two-year listening process that gathered the hopes of lay Catholics across dozens of countries...
2023 C.E.
April 27 Tribal-led conservation is finally getting the funding it deserves — and the scale of this commitment reflects how seriously some funders are taking that responsibility. Fifteen philanthropic organizations have pledged $102.5 million over five years to support Indigenous-led stewardship, a meaningful shift given that less than 0.5% of philanthropic dollars have historically reached Native communities. The 574 federally recognized tribes already manage more than 140 million acres, yet annual funding for that work has...
2023 C.E.
April 26 Electric vehicles are on track to hit 14 million global sales in 2023, up from 10 million the year before — a jump that has analysts revising their forecasts upward yet again. The International Energy Agency now expects EVs to make up 35 percent of new car sales worldwide by 2030, a sharp leap from the 21 percent it predicted just one year earlier. The shift is showing up in unexpected places too: in...
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