Sustainability

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

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.

Our view

The crucial development challenge

To achieve the SDGs, humankind needs strong and competent institutions at national as well as supranational levels

Participation

Valuable resource

New book about participatory methods in development projects has the makings of a standard

Global trends

In urgent need of development

If Africa is not to fall behind further, the continent must develop fast

Development discourse

Unsustainable western exceptionalism

For environmental reasons, western Europe and North America cannot be models of development

Fire hazards

Up in flames

Zambian poor are increasingly subject to fire hazards from charcoal and firewood they use for heating and cooking

“Development”

False promises, questionable term

The term “development” makes false promises and perpetuates colonial dominance thinking

International relations

From “underdevelopment” to the SDGs

Why stereotyped ideas of developed and developing nations are not helpful

Global Governance

Self-perpetuating cycles of violence

Joint UN and World Bank study on international cooperation in conflict prevention

Land ownership

How the first redistribution attempt failed

The policy proposed by Namibia’s first National Land Reform Conference in the early 1990s never took off

Land restitution

Righting a wrong

To make amends for colonial-era crimes, Germany should fund Namibian land restitution

Governance

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

Sustainability

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