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

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Death row for Indian rapists, support for Somalia, state of emergency in Egypt, the Trade and Development Report 2013 and the G20 summit

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Public response

D+C/E+Z Feedback from our reader

Ecological destruction

Conquest by chainsaw

Logging in the subtropical dry forest deprives indigenous people in Argentina of their livelihood

Post-2015 debate

Set the right example

VENRO wants Germany to become a model environmental sustainability and social justice.

Forestry

Sustainable use

Governments and the private sector must make the timber trade more sustainable

Global challenges

Pay attention to co-benefits

Co-benefits – development efforts can reduce poverty and secure global public goods at the same time

Media

Severe sentence

A recent judgement shows that the freedom of the press cannot be taken for granted in Senegal

Editorial

Global public good

Law of the jungle – why forests are disapperaring fast from developing countries and why Germans don't understand the reasons

Europe

Growing complexity

David Kleimann and other scholars argue that EU trade policy is over-ambitious

Deforestation

Global trends

Every year more and more rainforest is being cleared – damaging humans and the climate

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.