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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.

PEGNet conference
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

African lions and Asian tigers

PEGNet conference: African lions and Asian tigers

Sustainable urbanisation
Merle Becker

600,000 jobs in China

UNEP chief says sustainability matters in view of rapid urbanisation

Interview
Rashad Kaldany

“Capacity development is very important”

IFC wanst to boost food security with private sector means

Memories
Walter Scheel

“Germany no longer had colonies”

Walter Scheel discusses his time in office as German development minister

50 years
Gilles Carbonnier

The challenges ahead

A Swiss view on Germany’s development policy and the challenges of the future

Global governance
Leelananda de Silva

An outdated set-up

How to improve the UN Development System

Relevant reading
Johanna Bergmann

Indispensable imagination

Visions of a sustainable future

New security index
Peter Hauff

Somalia scores worst

New security index: Somalia scores worst

Franco-German development aid
Peter Hauff

A first in South Sudan

France and Germany bundle their resources to support the water sector in South Sudan

Comment
Anne Jung
Marie Müller

Appearances can be deceptive

Civil society representatives are disappointed in Kimberley Process

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.

The desert alliance
How to challenge a corrupt system
Gukurahundi: Zimbabwe’s lingering genocide wounds
Lessons of failure
The exception of dengue

Sustainability

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

The desert alliance
How to challenge a corrupt system
Gukurahundi: Zimbabwe’s lingering genocide wounds
Lessons of failure
The exception of dengue