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Bhutan is the first country that has become carbon negative.

Good news

Bhutan’s successful climate action and Vietnam’s new AI law

The two pieces of good news this month are about Bhutan’s way to become the first country in the world that is carbon negative, and about Vietnam’s new comprehensive AI law.

by D+C / E+Z

15.07.2026

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On 7 June, protesters in Bristol pulled down the statue of slave trader Edward Colston and later threw it into the harbour.

Development discourse

Unsustainable western exceptionalism

by Ndongo Samba Sylla

18.08.2020

Fire hazards

Up in flames

by Derrick Silimina

17.08.2020

“Development”

False promises, questionable term

by Aram Ziai

by Julia Schöneberg

14.08.2020

Queen Elizabeth II and President Kwame Nkrumah depicted on a billboard in Accra in 1961 ahead of the monarch’s visit to the former colony Ghana, which was then considered to be an “underdeveloped” country.

International relations

From “underdevelopment” to the SDGs

by Mahwish Gul

12.08.2020

UN peacekeepers in Cote d’Ivoire in 2012.

Global Governance

Self-perpetuating cycles of violence

by Florian Gaisrucker

11.08.2020

A mural in Windhoek depicts the celebration of independence in 1990.

Land ownership

How the first redistribution attempt failed

by Henning Melber

05.08.2020

White farmers still own most of the commercial farming land.

Land restitution

Righting a wrong

by Henning Melber

04.08.2020

Vendor sells mangoes on his pushcart at a roadside in Karachi.

Fruit industry

Multiple adversities

by Syed Muhammad Abubakar

02.08.2020

Our view

Belonging together

by Hans Dembowski

28.07.2020

China’s government promises to accelerate transition to renewables: worker in a coal mine in Inner Mongolia.

Infrastructure

Build back better

by Katie Cashman

26.07.2020