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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.

Global environment
Mukta Martens

Waste less to avoid being inundated by plastic

An Indian NGO is raising awareness of why plastic waste is threatening our future

Humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen
Tamuna Sabadze

IRC: More money and peace talks needed for Yemen

Humanitarian agencies demand more money for Yemen – as well as serious peace efforts

Environmental sustainability
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

First steps towards keeping environment toxin free

The EU wants its sustainable chemicals strategy to set global standards

Remote management
Jochen Harnisch
Meinhard Rögner

KfW remote project management with KoBoToolbox

In Burkina Faso, KfW bank uses KoBoToolbox, a remote management information system

Technical solutions
Jochen Harnisch
Meinhard Rögner

Remote project management is helpful in times of crisis

During the Corona crisis, KfW is using new approaches to manage its projects from the distance

Global environment
Hans-Christian Stolzenberg

Trailblazing UN conference

The international conference on chemicals management had to be postponed, but Germany intends to keep promoting the cause

Building bridges
Richa Arora

Why diaspora communities are powerful development actors

In countries of residence as well as origin, policymakers should engage with migrant communities

Environmental hazards
Hans-Christian Stolzenberg

Stop global trend of chemical intensification

Application of chemicals must become safer and more sustainable

Oxfam
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Fundamental change needed to overcome inequality

To enable everyone to live a good life, Oxfam demands social and environmental justice

Special interests
Michael Steffen
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

The public good must not be left to powerful billionaires

Beware of plutocrats’ self-interest, even when they engage in philanthropy

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