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Sustainability
Energy-efficient buildings
Marian Rzepka

China can save 40 % of its heating energy

In China, more and more houses are being made energy efficient – but 50 billion square metres of building area is a lot of ground to cover

Energy-efficient buildings
Marian Rzepka

Learning from China

Knowledge and expertise relating to energy-efficient retrofitting can be applied to many countries if they scale back their energy subsidies

In brief

News of the week

Relevant news – 23 May to 29 May

Global warming
Thomas R. Loster
Christoph Bals

Will the tide shift in Paris?

No matter what the results of the climate summit in Paris will be, humankind must adapt to global warming

Sustainable Development Goals
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

Speed, scale and mind shift

Bonn Conference for Global Transformation calls for a shift towards sustainability

Editorial
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Worse than a financial crisis

Why many climate negotiators feel frustrated

Trade
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Opportunities to be grasped

There are ways to boost trade between industrialised nations and sub-Saharan Africa

Energy supply
Kwabena Donkor
Boubacar Ba
Rebecca Renz

“We need  finance options”

Aware of climate change, African governments must still improve their country’s energy supply

In brief

News of the week

Relevant news – 16 May to 22 May

Climate finance
Liane Schalatek

Get ready for business

The Green Climate Fund aspires to be fully operational ahead of the climate summit in Paris in December

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Poverty Reduction

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

Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
What Zanzibar's spices have to do with gender equality
Fundamental human right under attack
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
Don’t leave sex education to internet pornography

Gender Equality

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

The literary power of Black women writers
What Zanzibar's spices have to do with gender equality
The fate of a Rwandan man with disability
Fundamental human right under attack
Don’t leave sex education to internet pornography

Governance

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

Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
Waithood – endless adolescence
“Dialogue of life”
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
“I am angry because Kenya is not working for many of its citizens”

Sustainability

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

Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
Waithood – endless adolescence
“Dialogue of life”
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
“I am angry because Kenya is not working for many of its citizens”