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Development and cooperation

D + C

Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit

E + Z

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.

United Nations
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

New approach to conflict prevention

Realignment of UN peace work and conflict prevention

UNDP
Achim Steiner
Achim Steiner
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

“Governance is fundamental”

UNDP chief explains how the concepts of “human development” and “sustainable development” are converging

Drones
Raphael Mweninguwe

Help from the sky

For Africa’s remote and impoverished communities, help may soon come from drones flying through the sky

Indoor air pollution
Katharina Michaelowa
Katharina Michaelowa
Martina Zahno

Clearing the air

Indoor air pollution from cooking with biomass continues to increase the vulnerability of India’s poor to respiratory diseases and Covid-19

REDD+
Johannes Berliner
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

No panacea

REDD+ money is reinvested in forest protection and sustainable land use

Africa
Karim Okanla

Environmental destruction

Poverty is an important driver of deforestation in sub-Saharan countries

Propaganda
Jorge Soares

Nothing is true

Why populists depend on systematical disinformation

Populist governance
Jorge Soares

Lying about Brazil’s forests

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro falsely says deforestation is not a problem

World in crisis
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Why we need global cooperation

Hans Dembowski spells out some thoughts on global governance ahead of Shattuck Center panel discussion on Friday 3 July

Our view
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

Human action

Deforestation continues on a global level although it is damaging to human interests in several ways

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.

Drawing the right conclusions from data
The desert alliance
How to challenge a corrupt system
Gukurahundi: Zimbabwe’s lingering genocide wounds
Lessons of failure

Sustainability

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

Drawing the right conclusions from data
The desert alliance
How to challenge a corrupt system
Gukurahundi: Zimbabwe’s lingering genocide wounds
Lessons of failure