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Sustainability
Development studies

Don’t get distracted by administrative concerns

The academic field of development studies must react to trends like the rise of emerging markets, climate change and migration

Global affairs

Taxation serves sustainability

The SDGs are a sound basis for dealing with the major challenges humanity must rise to – and government revenues matter

Climate adaptation

Policy responses are needed

Senegal and Benin are implementing Nationally Determined Contributions with assistance from GIZ

Global governance

Make paradigm shift happen

The paradigm shift towards sustainability must go ahead at full speed

Economics is driven by the wrong incentives

Mathematical modelling does not reveal everything

Paris climate agreement

No time to rest on laurels

Two years on from the Paris climate agreement, countries now need to implement their goals

Least developed countries

Addressing our climate reality

The least developed countries demand a robust ‘rulebook’ to implement the Paris agreement and call for adequate support

USA

“The Republican party must wake up”

How to prevent Donald Trump from causing long-term climate harm

Climate finance

The role of the African Development Bank

The international finance institution AfDB is rising to its responsibility in view of climate change

Climate finance

African action

Africa is the world region most vulnerable to global warming and deserves support from donor governments

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Sustainability

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