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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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by D+C / E+Z

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Climate protest in front of the White House in June.

Blog

USA will withdraw from Paris Agreement

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by Hans Dembowski
Mark Zuckerberg and his wife promise to fight inequality. Their assets are worth more than of the combined wealth of the USA’s bottom 20 % of households.

Civil society

Diminished civic equality

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by Hans Dembowski
Indian pharmaceutical companies such as Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories make antibiotics for the global market in Hyderabad.

Multi-resistant bacteria

Global threat

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by Christoph Lübbert
by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
.... but some people can spend more on philanthropy than others.

Blog

Private donors must not be allowed to distort public policy

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by Hans Dembowski
Girl at a well in Ethiopia.

Editorial

Water transition

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by Katja Dombrowski
Half of Thailand was under water in the fall of 2011. St. Mark’s Square in Venice was flooded as well.

Flood prevention

After us, the deluge?

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by Daniel Nordmann
by Till Below
International development programmes play an ever more important role – not least because of the refugee crisis. This woman was saved in the Mediterranean Sea and brought to Italy.

ODA

Cross-cutting issues

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by Katja Dombrowski
China supports building African infrastructure: the light rail in Addis Ababa is an example.

Global governance

Daunting challenges in implementing SDGs

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by Lan Xue
by Lingfei Weng
by Hanzhi Yu
US President Donald Trump plans to weaken the development agency USAID.

Official development assistance

A matter of enlightened self-interest

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by Scott Morris
by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
“Happy life years” reached in Venezuela are significantly higher than in Sri Lanka, although the people in both countries have about the same life expectancy: farmer couple in Venezuela.

Research

More than a lack of money

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by Sebastian Rewerski