Sustainability

The UN Sustainable Development Goals aim to transform economies in an environmentally sound manner, leaving no one behind.

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Digitalisation

Pros and cons: virtual money

Crypto currencies open up opportunities, but also have risks for rich and developing countries

Economics

Nobel prize's focus on poverty is welcome, but incomplete

Micro level evidence is insufficient for rising to macro level challenges

Tanzania

Praising the social market economy

Faith leaders in Tanzania do not want to see economy leaving anyone behind

Climate protests

Why civil disobedience is inherently non-authoritarian

So far Extinction Rebellion seems to be living up to non-violence principles

Religion and development

Ambitious mission

Germany’s development policymakers want religious actors on board as partners for sustainable development

Human civilisation

Why we need a UN charter

What needs to be done so digitalisation will drive, not thwart the transformation to sustainability

Aid Effectiveness

TruBudget and the Paris ­Declaration

In the field of Aid Effectiveness there is still much to do

Blockchain

Blockchain technology for partnerships at eye-level

A new digital platform designed by KfW facilitates transparent and secure implementation of ODA

Anti-Semitism

Loving Israel and hating Jews

The anti-Semitism of Trump and Netanyahu

Global heating

Researchers' overwhelming evidence

Teenage climate activists are not painting apocalyptic picture of the future – scientists are

Governance

Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals will require good governance – from the local to the global level.

Sustainability

The UN Sustainable Development Goals aim to transform economies in an environmentally sound manner, leaving no one behind.