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Sustainability

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

Boro Baski
Boro Baski

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.

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

Multilateral institution
Liane Schalatek

Transformative potential

Several programmatic decisions that will guide the Green Climate Fund are promising

Comment
Jochen Hippler

Non-nuclear opportunities

Success in the nuclear talks with Iran would be welcome, but cannot be taken for granted

Land reform
Tiffany Jenkins

Redistribution that triggers violence

After 27 years, the Philippine land-reform programme has only been enforced to not quite 80 %

In brief

News of the week

Relevant news – 9 May to 15 May

European Union
Benjamin Luig
Armin Paasch
Kerstin Lanje

The EU is not taking policy coherence seriously

The EU is not doing nearly enough to ensure policy coherence for development

Poverty Reduction

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

Why some Indian famers are backing away from rice cultivation
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Lessons of failure
The problems with Glyphosate
Why pesticides are more a curse than a blessing

Gender Equality

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

Breaking gender stereotypes: female bus driver in Rwanda
Why you might find our newsletter useful
The hard lot of old people
Women, climate and chocolate
Justice for victims of rape

Governance

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

Don’t stop, do better
Risking collapse
Why you might find our newsletter useful
Drawing the right conclusions from data
The desert alliance

Sustainability

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

Don’t stop, do better
Risking collapse
Why you might find our newsletter useful
Drawing the right conclusions from data
The desert alliance