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Development and cooperation

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Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit

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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.

Environment
Derrick Silimina
Derrick Silimina

Financing the fight against climate change

Facing twin plagues of floods and droughts, Zambia lacks resources to fight the effects of climate change

African perspectives
James Shikwati

Triple challenge

In view of triple Covid-19 challenge, African countries must rely on domestic capabilities

Water treatment
M. A. Jabbar
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

“Each drop of water matters”

DBL Group, a Bangladeshi garments producer, recycles its industrial water

International law
Linda Engel

Companies sue states for ­ climate-protection measures

The Energy Charter Treaty allows companies to legally challenge climate protection laws

Power vacuum in international affairs
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

No meaningful global leadership

Covid-19 is revealing a dangerous power vacuum in international affairs

UN prognosis
Sarah Josef

The climate crisis is ­­exacerbating water stress

UN report highlights challenges related to water stress

International cooperation
Daniel Nordmann
Helmut Lang
Katrin Gronemeier

Averting “Day Zero”

How to improve urban water supply in sub-Saharan Africa

Hard-hit country
Jonathan Menge

Resilience tested once again

Nepal's government may need to reconsider its development strategy due to Covid-19 crisis

Water crisis
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Vital resource

The climate crisis and overuse of water put the water supply in many countries at risk

Water crisis
Katie Cashman

Parched and privatised

Chile faces serious water shortages due to the climate crisis

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