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Bhutan is the first country that has become carbon negative.

Good news

Bhutan’s successful climate action and Vietnam’s new AI law

The two pieces of good news this month are about Bhutan’s way to become the first country in the world that is carbon negative, and about Vietnam’s new comprehensive AI law.

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Mark Zuckerberg and his wife promise to fight inequality. Their assets are worth more than of the combined wealth of the USA’s bottom 20 % of households.

Civil society

Diminished civic equality

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by Hans Dembowski
Because there is no plumbing in much of South Sudan, the drinking water must be brought to customers in tank trucks.

Water supply

Long-term structural development

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by Anke Peine
by Christian Grünhagen
Indian pharmaceutical companies such as Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories make antibiotics for the global market in Hyderabad.

Multi-resistant bacteria

Global threat

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by Christoph Lübbert
by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
.... but some people can spend more on philanthropy than others.

Blog

Private donors must not be allowed to distort public policy

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by Hans Dembowski
People in the flood-risk areas depend on accurate and fast information – concerning water levels, for example.

Climate-change adaptation

Making flood-risk maps publically available

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by Daniel Nordmann
by Till Below
In 2011, record flooding put large areas of Thailand under water.

Climate-change adaptation

Documentation by drones

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by Daniel Nordmann
by Till Below
Girl at a well in Ethiopia.

Editorial

Water transition

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by Katja Dombrowski
Half of Thailand was under water in the fall of 2011. St. Mark’s Square in Venice was flooded as well.

Flood prevention

After us, the deluge?

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by Daniel Nordmann
by Till Below
International development programmes play an ever more important role – not least because of the refugee crisis. This woman was saved in the Mediterranean Sea and brought to Italy.

ODA

Cross-cutting issues

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by Katja Dombrowski
Many people get their drinking water from the rivers.

Safe drinking water

Funding matters

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by Raphael Mweninguwe