Sustainability

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

Why some Indian famers are backing away from rice cultivation

In West Bengal, the green revolution made high-yielding rice cultivation attractive. Four decades later, the associated environmental problems have increased – and the climate crisis is further compounding them.

Government revenues

Undermining statehood

How structural adjustment and double tax agreements have contributed to weakening public finances in Africa

Domestic resource mobilisation

Double standards

African countries should raise more tax revenues, but OECD governments are not really helping

Global warming

The case against fossil fuels

Public finances must serve to reduce greenhouse gases

Public budgets

Harmful government expenditure

Fossil fuel subsidies are unsustainable in both environmental and budgetary terms

Public finance

High time to get organised

On their own, the rich nations are no longer able to regulate tax issues internationally

New Silk Road

Clean at home, dirty abroad

China massively invests in coal power in the Belt and Road countries

Blog

The USA is setting the wrong example on taxes

Republicans base essential legislation on fake-news arguments

Portrait

A life for the wilderness

Portrait of the South African environmentalist and human rights activist Andrew Zaloumis

Political science

Access denied

Springer Nature’s decision to block access to politically controversial content in China has global ramifications

Governance

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

Sustainability

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