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Sustainability

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

Susanne Neubert
Susanne Neubert

The problems with Glyphosate

Pesticides have often caused controversy because their detrimental side-effects were initially ignored and later intentionally played down. The most recent example is probably the herbicide Glyphosate/Roundup.

IMF
Chimezie Anajama

IMF keeps pressing for more assertive government action

IMF proposes investments worth $ 50 billion to boost Covid-19 vaccination programmes

Health care
Benjamin M. Kagina
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Africans are learning lessons from other world regions

An expert from Cape Town assesses the state of African vaccination campaigns in view of coronavirus

Blog
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Criticism of Netanyahu is not necessarily anti-Semitic

Nuanced assessments of Israel-Hamas conflict from the New York Times

D+C/E+Z
D+C / E+Z

Why we believe in our e-Paper

What purposes our monthly e-Paper serves, and how it differs from the print issue

Biden administration
Katie Cashman

Biden is respoding to climate activists

How demands for a Green New Deals are inspiring White House policymaking

COP25

Civil unrest: Costs and benefits

Losing the privilege of hosting COP25 on Chilean soil in 2019 was not all bad

Climate change
Waldo Soto Bruna

Why Chile can set an example in environmental protection

Chile lost the chance to host COP25 on its soil in 2019, but could shine at COP26

Pandemic response
Achal Prabhala
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Many governments are half-hearted about IP waiver

Debate on patent waiver for Covid-19 vaccines lacks sense of urgency

Learning Chinese
Derrick Silimina
Derrick Silimina

The Mandarin road to success

Learning to speak Chinese opens a wide range of job opportunities in Zambia

Weather forecasts
Till Below
Dina Mambwe

Waiting for rain – and advice

Crop farmer Elinat Daka relies on nature for a good yield, and timely weather-based advice would help

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