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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.

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Electrical substation in Anantapur, India. Co-financed by KfW, it supplies electricity for the state of Andhra Pradesh.

KfW financing

Investing in better networks

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by Friederike Bauer
by Achim Neumann
A wind farm and a coal-based power plant near Cologne in Germany: prosperous nations must reduce fossil fuel consumption, not only for the sake of Africa.

Wind and solar

The right approach to catching up

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by Jakkie Cilliers
Energy efficiency is the “world’s first fuel”: Energy-efficient residential buildings funded by KfW Development Bank in New Delhi.

Renewables

Networks and storage needed

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by Friederike Bauer
by Achim Neumann
Many informal businesses become unviable in lockdown conditions: tea seller in Cairo in fall 2019.

Universal basic income

Social transfers stabilise aggregate demand

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by Markus Loewe
Markus Loewe
Without immigration, Italy’s population would have dwindled: Pope Francis visiting a regional migration centre in Bologna in 2017.

UN forecast

55 countries will see their population shrink by 2050

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by Sarah Josef
Workers unload coal from a ship in Bangladesh’s capital of Dhaka.

Fossil fuel

Bangladesh’s coal boom

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by Nora Sausmikat
by Quirin Jetschke
Protest against a coal plant that Kenya wants to build with funding from China in the port city of Lamu.

Fossil fuel industry

China continues to finance coal power around the world

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by Nora Sausmikat
by Quirin Jetschke
Selling smuggled petrol on the roadside.

Fuel prices

Strained relations

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by Karim Okanla
Solar panel in a village in Jharkand state.

Green power

Behind schedule

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by Aditi Roy Ghatak
Powerful Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plant in Ouarzazate, Morocco.

Our view

The opportunity of crisis

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by Katja Dombrowski