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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.

Marginalised communities
Thuany Rodrigues

Spreading dangerously

Covid-19 strikes hard in Rio de Janeiro's many informal settlements

Household chore
Sudeh Dehnavi

Gender injustice

Unequal income opportunities are the reason why women and girls must fetch water for poor families

Economics
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Count in human beings

Two Nobel laureates want economists to focus more on empirical reality

Water
Krupa Ge

Marginalised women’s plight

Women’s stressful duty of procuring water

Urban life
Krupa Ge

No water – or too much of it

2019 Chennai suffered a terrible drought – after devastating flooding four years earlier

Climate protection
Hans-Jochen Luhmann
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Appropriate carbon prices

Why carbon emissions pricing and carbon shadow pricing both make sense

Multilateral agency
Karim Okanla

Africa needs the WHO

US President Donald Trump’s decision to halt funding to World Health Organization (WHO) is likely to hurt many Africans

Pandemic response
Gerd Müller

Global solutions required

Either we beat the Coronavirus worldwide or we will not beat it at all, says Gerd Müller, minister of development

Tumbling oil price
Aviva Freudmann

End of an era

The news went from bad to worse for OPEC in April

Shared responsibility
Kathrin Berensmann
Kathrin Berensmann

Debt relief for poorest countries

Left to themselves, developing countries can’t cope with the Covid-19 pandemic

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