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Sustainability

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

Karol Kempa
Michael König-Sykorova
Ulf Moslener
Oliver Schenker

Phasing out fossil fuels with climate finance

Fossil-fuel subsidies can help to keep everyday goods affordable. However, they also undermine climate protection and burden tight national budgets. Climate finance, if applied well, helps to reform subsidy systems in a socially just way.

Interview with Johannes Merck

“A job for government agencies”

“A job for government agencies”

Development assistance

Progress in donor harmonisation

Progress in donor harmonisation

Uganda tests GM bananas

Uganda tests GM bananas

Communiqué on EU development policy

Communiqué on EU development policy

Development finance

Study warns against expecting too much of microcredits

Study warns against expecting too much of microcredits

Poverty Reduction

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

India’s tiny plutocratic elite is growing fast
BRICS-members are not coordinating their West-Africa strategies
When a relatively strong African country is struggling on all fronts
When qualifications don’t decide your career
Whose development?

Gender Equality

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

Why the acronym BIPoC does not have to explain anything
Defending the progress made
Pakistan’s politically assertive women
Consequences of cyclone Freddy
Jobless due to epilepsy

Governance

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

Why Africa is caught between two stools with BRICS
Phasing out fossil fuels with climate finance
Chinese funded steel mill displaces locals in Zimbabwe
India’s tiny plutocratic elite is growing fast
From colonial division to bloody conflict

Sustainability

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

Why Africa is caught between two stools with BRICS
Phasing out fossil fuels with climate finance
Chinese funded steel mill displaces locals in Zimbabwe
India’s tiny plutocratic elite is growing fast
From colonial division to bloody conflict