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Sustainability

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

Karol Kempa
Michael König-Sykorova
Ulf Moslener
Oliver Schenker

Phasing out fossil fuels with climate finance

Fossil-fuel subsidies can help to keep everyday goods affordable. However, they also undermine climate protection and burden tight national budgets. Climate finance, if applied well, helps to reform subsidy systems in a socially just way.

Medical research is a public matter

Medical research is a public matter

Interview with Ulla Tørnæs, Danish minister for…

“Very complex landscape”

“Very complex landscape”

Mineral resources

Jewelled development

Jewelled development

Stuck at the small-scale level

Stuck at the small-scale level

An unaffordable luxury

An unaffordable luxury

Peacebuilding

Listen to the locals

Listen to the locals

Official development assistance in decline

Official development assistance in decline

EPAs: EU offers free market access

EPAs: EU offers free market access

World trade

Liberalisation has done Africa more harm than good

Liberalisation has done Africa more harm than good

Financial markets

East Asia re-considers foreign-exchange reserves

East Asia re-considers foreign-exchange reserves

Poverty Reduction

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

India’s tiny plutocratic elite is growing fast
BRICS-members are not coordinating their West-Africa strategies
When a relatively strong African country is struggling on all fronts
When qualifications don’t decide your career
Whose development?

Gender Equality

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

Defending the progress made
Pakistan’s politically assertive women
Consequences of cyclone Freddy
Jobless due to epilepsy
Why ODA is better than its reputation in donor countries

Governance

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

Phasing out fossil fuels with climate finance
Chinese funded steel mill displaces locals in Zimbabwe
India’s tiny plutocratic elite is growing fast
From colonial division to bloody conflict
BRICS-members are not coordinating their West-Africa strategies

Sustainability

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

Phasing out fossil fuels with climate finance
Chinese funded steel mill displaces locals in Zimbabwe
India’s tiny plutocratic elite is growing fast
From colonial division to bloody conflict
BRICS-members are not coordinating their West-Africa strategies