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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.

Decarbonisation
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

A carbon tax should promote redistribution

Redistribution is essential to the success of energy-price reforms in developing countries

Global Fund for Social Protection
Markus Kaltenborn
Laura Kreft

Social security for all

A Global Fund for Social Protection to help low-income countries finance basic social security

Global governance
Ronald Ssegujja Ssekandi
Ronald Ssegujja Ssekandi

Global sustainability depends on financial integrity

High-level panel makes proposals on curbing illicit financial flows internationally

Training
Laura Hinze

Preventing teacher violence

Training programme to curb teacher violence as an educational practice

Educational practices
Laura Hinze

The dire consequences of school violence

Teacher violence has a negative impact on students' mental health and academic performance

Blog
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Democracy versus kleptocracy

If western governments want to promote democracy, a good place to start would be to fight illicit financial flows

Sustainability
Michael Steffen

Environmentally enhanced Human Development Index

In response to dramatic risks, UNDP now considers environmental aspects in modified Human Development Index

GIZ
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

How the GIZ is learning from experience

GIZ publishes evaluation report 2020

Universities
Sudeh Dehnavi

The merits of studying abroad

Foreign graduates of German universities help to build bridges between cultures

Remote schooling
Farai Shawn Matiashe

New useful tool for remote learning

A WhatsApp bot is supporting remote learning in Zimbabwe – it was co-developed by a student

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