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The WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies has an explicit focus on sustainability.

Good News

Successful activism and WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies

The two pieces of good news this month are about the WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies and on examples of activism that is paying off.

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Innovative financing options like crowdfunding can help secure a future for small and medium-sized enterprises: market stalls in Lusaka, Zambia.

Crowdfunding

Supporting SMEs in Africa

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by Rolf Drescher

IT

Development of African ­crowdfunding platforms

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by Rolf Drescher

Financial sector

What is crowdfunding?

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by Rolf Drescher

Development studies

Don’t get distracted by administrative concerns

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by Hans Dembowski
Urban growth must not lock in unsustainable approaches – selling potatoes in peripheral Dhaka.

Global affairs

Taxation serves sustainability

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by Hans Dembowski
Hurricane Harvey approaching the coast of Texas on 25 August.

Global governance

Make paradigm shift happen

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by Hans Dembowski

Economics is driven by the wrong incentives

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by Hans Dembowski
More renewable energy is vital for achieving the Paris climate targets: a wind farm under construction in Germany.

Paris climate agreement

No time to rest on laurels

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by Thomas R. Loster
Due to global warming, thousands of pastoralists have lost livestock and been displaced in Ethiopia.

Least developed countries

Addressing our climate reality

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by Gebru Jember Endalew
On Earth Day (22 April), about 100,000 people took part in the March for Science in Washington, DC. Related rallies attracted some 70,000 demonstrators in Boston, 60,000 in Chicago and 50,000 each in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

USA

“The Republican party must wake up”

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by Jennifer Morgan
by Hans Dembowski