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Minamata Disease Discovery
The disease was discovered in Minimata City in Kumamoto, Japan 1956. The cause of it was a release of methylmercury in the wastewater that came from the Chisso Corporation's chemical factory, this break lasted from 1932 to 1968. -
Silent Spring Book
Book by Rachel Carson published on September 27, 1962, and addressed the negative consequences on the environment caused by the unregulated use of pesticides, and successfully brought these problems to the attention of the American public. -
Literature and media: Earth day 22nd April
Earth day was first held to demonstrate support for environmental protection. Governments , Colleges, Universities & Schools were involved. They encouraged people to recycle, conserve energy, increase plant & tree growth, saving water, respecting nature & reduce toxins in the air, keep the environment clean, reduce air pollution. -
Bhopal Pesticide Plant
The Bhopal Pesticide disaster happened because one of the tanks was overheated and burst, resulting in 42 tonnes of toxic methyl isocyanate gas released. This exposed 500,000 people to this toxic gas, which killed 8000-10000 people in the first 72 hours while some 25,000 people died from related diseases. -
Environment Protection Act
Was passed, strengthened India’s commitment to the environment. -
International Agreement: The Brundtland Report
It describes principles for sustainable development. The Brundtland Report critical global environmental problems were one of the causes of the enormous poverty of the Southern part of the world and the non-sustainable consumption and production in the Northern part. -
The Kyoto Protocol
The Kyoto Protocol was an international treaty which extends the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that commits state parties to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The only nations that didn’t sign 1997's Global Climate Treaty are Afghanistan, Sudan & the U.S.A. -
An Inconvenient Truth
Documentary addressing the controversial and outrageous topic of global climate change, aiming to create a more transparent view of it and to reach a much larger audience. -
Electric Cars
Tesla came up with an electric car, the Roadster This vehicle was a revolution in the modern age of the electric vehicle and featured cutting-edge battery technology and electric powertrain. The original Roadster is a battery electric vehicle (BEV) and was the first highway legal serial production all-electric car to ever use a lithium-ion battery as a power source. It is also the first all-electric car capable of traveling more than 320 kilometers per charge. -
UN Earth Summit
The UN Earth Summit hosted in Rio, Brazil was the first large scale international conference focused specifically on trying to come up with solutions for global environmental problems. This conference took place 40 years after the first “Earth Summit” in Stockholm, Sweden. -
International Agreements
On 2015 Paris brought all nations into a common cause to undertake ambitious efforts to combat climate change and adapt to its effects, with better support to assist developing countries to do so. The Paris agreement was on 12 December 2015. As of February 2019, 195 UNFCCC members have signed the agreement, and 185 have become party to it. -
Carbon Dioxide Removal
CDR is a way to refer to techniques used for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and thus reducing global warming. The most used process of CDR is by carbon capture and storage (BECCS) and actually is considered so important that IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change) has incorpard it in their modelling of solution. -
Technology: Floating rubbish bin that cleans oceans.
Andrew Turton and Pete Ceglinski created the Seabin, a floating rubbish bin that can collect plastic bottles, paper, oil, fuel, and detergent floating in the ocean. -
Disaster: The sixth mass extinction
The planet is currently experiencing the worst extinction of plants and animals. Science estimates we are losing species at 1,000 to 10,000 the background rate (dozens going extinct everyday).