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Development and cooperation

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Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit

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Sustainability

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

Javier A. Cisterna Figueroa

Latin America is burning

Year after year, valuable ecosystems are destroyed by wildfires. This drives climate change and decimates biodiversity. Slash-and-burn agriculture is partly to blame.

Rural development
Johannes Fischbeck

Informal energy supply

Remote villages need off-grid power supply

Op/Ed voices

Meagre result and new alliances

Op/Ed voices from around the world assess Durban climate summit

Comment
Kai Ambos

Room for improvement

Promising change of guard at the International Criminal Court

Comment
Karin Slowing Umaña

Bittersweet aftertaste

For Latin Americans, Busan summit’s aftertaste is bittersweet

Multilateral summit
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Inclusive partnership

High Level Forum agrees on Busan Partnership for Effecitive Development Cooperation

Regional integration
Glenn Brigaldino

Enabling Africa to develop

Africa needs infrastructure that links countries to one another

Letter

Little interest in governance

Letter

Impact assessment
Roger Peltzer
Susanne Neubert
Susanne Neubert

Higher standard of living

Proof of higher standards of living: Cotton Made in Africa

Trade policy
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

A brief history of the WTO

A brief history of the WTO

Renewable energy
Lorenzo Cotula
Lynn Finnegan
Duncan Macqueen

Europe’s appetite for wood

The pros and cons of large-scale biomass production in tropical forests

Poverty Reduction

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

Lessons of failure
The problems with Glyphosate
Why pesticides are more a curse than a blessing
More financial support for college students
The hard lot of old people

Gender Equality

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

The hard lot of old people
Women, climate and chocolate
Justice for victims of rape
How can we infer the colour of a person’s skin?
How GIZ gets young people moving

Governance

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

Drawing the right conclusions from data
The desert alliance
How to challenge a corrupt system
Gukurahundi: Zimbabwe’s lingering genocide wounds
Lessons of failure

Sustainability

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

Drawing the right conclusions from data
The desert alliance
How to challenge a corrupt system
Gukurahundi: Zimbabwe’s lingering genocide wounds
Lessons of failure