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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.

Companies
Aviva Freudmann

Oil majors feel the shock

Multinational oil companies are under pressure

Oil markets
Aviva Freudmann

How the mighty have fallen

Oil producers are not able to send shock waves through the global economy anymore

Afghanistan
Nawid Paigham

Unfinished business

The hasty withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan is likely to result in a mess

KfW financing
Friederike Bauer
Achim Neumann

Investing in better networks

This is where KfW invests in new storage facilities and networks for renewable energy

Wind and solar
Jakkie Cilliers

The right approach to catching up

Africa is exposed to serious climate risks, but the continent contributes very little to global carbon emissions

Renewables
Friederike Bauer
Achim Neumann

Networks and storage needed

The global transition towards renewable energy can only succeed if the necessary networks and storage capacities are available

Universal basic income
Markus Loewe
Markus Loewe

Social transfers stabilise aggregate demand

The Covid-19 crisis is the right time to test UBI policies

UN forecast
Sarah Josef

55 countries will see their population shrink by 2050

UN statistics show that migration has an impact on how individual countries’ populations develop

Fossil fuel
Nora Sausmikat
Quirin Jetschke

Bangladesh’s coal boom

International financial institutions are funding coal power in Bangladesh

Fossil fuel industry
Nora Sausmikat
Quirin Jetschke

China continues to finance coal power around the world

China’s energy policy is full of contradictions

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