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Interview
Claire Schaffnit-Chatterjee

Long term risks to food security

Food security: humanity needs different models for production and consumption

Environment
Achim Steiner
Achim Steiner

“Our generation’s responsibility”

Climate change and loss of biodiversity are mutually reinforcing, UNEP chief warns

Climate diplomacy
Sven Harmeling
Alpha Oumar Kaloga

Assessing the Adaptation Fund

Promising start of UNFCCC’s Adaptation Fund

Comment
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

An irony of poverty reduction

MDG 1 remains the greatest challenge

Scholarship
André Lieber

Emerging stronger from crisis

Development economics has something to offer in times of crisis

Public finance
Claudia Isabel Rittel

Bitter losses

G-20 have not achieved much in fighting taxing havens

Food security
Thomas Marzahl

A human-rights issue

Food security is a human-rights issue

G-20
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Praise for international financial institutions

Inconclusive G-20 summit

Development goals
Claudia Isabel Rittel

Something to work with

EU Development goals

Local-government finance
Ulrich Nitschke
Tim Auracher

The right balance

Benin's model of local-government finance sets African standards

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Poverty Reduction

The first UN Sustainable Development Goal is to end poverty in all its forms everywhere.

Mexico must include its indigenous population in the tourism sector
Rebounding tourism set to support Sri Lanka’s economic recovery
Why tourist arrivals in Sri Lanka peaked in 2018
Mexico’s first female president
Prioritise international solidarity over national interests

Gender Equality

In order to achieve gender equality, it is necessary to empower women and girls.

Mexico’s first female president
Women-led businesses suffer most
Why you might find our newsletter useful
Why the acronym BIPoC does not have to explain anything
Defending the progress made

Governance

Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals will require good governance – from the local to the global level.

Building bridges to reconcile religious conflicts
ODA under attack
Development policy must not ignore changing global realities
Imagine top judges in Africa or Asia ruling like the US Supreme Court
Turning point in sanctions policy

Sustainability

The UN Sustainable Development Goals aim to transform economies in an environmentally sound manner, leaving no one behind.

Building bridges to reconcile religious conflicts
ODA under attack
Development policy must not ignore changing global realities
Imagine top judges in Africa or Asia ruling like the US Supreme Court
Turning point in sanctions policy