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2023 C.E.
January 25 Denmark’s biggest bank has declared an end to fossil fuel financing, after concluding that 99.9% of its carbon footprint comes from financed emissions.
2023 C.E.
January 25 Electric buses are now being assembled in Kenya for the first time, marking a genuine shift in how East Africa thinks about clean public transit. A Nairobi startup called BasiGo partnered with a veteran Mombasa assembler to build 1,000 electric buses over three years — creating over 600 jobs in manufacturing, maintenance, and charging. What makes this especially promising is BasiGo's pay-per-kilometer financing model, which makes electric buses as affordable upfront as diesel for...
2023 C.E.
January 24 The ban will cover a range of products, including make-up, perfume, body lotion, hair-styling products, shaving foam and nail polish. It would extend to cosmetics that contain animal-tested ingredients.
2023 C.E.
January 24 Following the Dutch Senate’s vote passing the proposal in a 56–15 vote, it now only needs to be signed by King Willem-Alexander and the responsible minister before becoming law.
2023 C.E.
January 23 Pfizer's not-for-profit pricing pledge now spans all 500 of its medicines — including chemotherapy and oral cancer treatments — across 45 of the world's lowest-income countries. That's a major expansion of an accord the company launched in 2022, which originally covered only patented drugs. By including off-patent medicines too, Pfizer is acknowledging that even decades-old cancer treatments often remain out of reach where generic supply chains never took hold. For patients across much of...
2023 C.E.
January 23 Sierra Leone's new Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment Act goes further than most quota laws — covering parliament, cabinet, and private-sector senior roles in a single piece of legislation, while also mandating equal pay and at least 14 weeks of maternity leave. That breadth matters because it treats women's political and economic exclusion as the connected problem research shows it to be. Enforcement is the real test ahead, since similar laws across Africa have...
2023 C.E.
January 13 Pilot programs are ongoing in Missouri, Pennsylvania, Virginia, California, and Hawai’i are already seeing promising results.
2023 C.E.
January 13 Women's football in Saudi Arabia is moving fast — and this tournament shows just how much. In a single week, the kingdom hosted its first international women's competition and produced its first FIFA-accredited female referee, Anoud Al Asmari — a striking sequence of firsts for a national women's team that only launched in 2022. Progress is real, though sports milestones and broader structural equality aren't the same thing, and observers note that other rights...
2023 C.E.
January 13 Blue bond financing is giving small island nations a powerful new tool to protect their oceans without sacrificing economic stability. Barbados channeled $50 million directly into a conservation endowment designed to fund marine protection across political cycles, not just during favorable budget years. The bond was oversubscribed, and similar deals in Belize and Ecuador suggest a growing wave — though the approach depends on strong institutional guarantors that smaller nations may struggle to secure....
2023 C.E.
January 12 There are now more than 600,000 EVs in Norway. In 2017, the country pledged to end the sale of petrol and diesel cars by 2025. The government also has exempted new EVs from purchase tax and sales tax.
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