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AI helps in the fight against marine litter.

Good News

Reduced under-five mortality and fight against marine litter

The two pieces of good news this month are about an underwater robot that removes litter from the sea and the succesful fight against under-five mortality.

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“Porto Alegre has taken interesting approaches to involving citizens in public decision making”: the Brazilian city’s historical town hall.

Global environment

“Normative compass”

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by Dirk Messner
by Hans Dembowski
The pace of urbanisation is unparalleled in human history. A slum in Cairo.

Habitat III

Urbanisation as opportunity

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by Franz-B. Marré
by Maria-Theres Haase
The small and landlocked country of Rwanda lobbies for faster regional integration in Eastern Africa. Downtown Kigali.

Regional integration

Far from united

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by Katja Dombrowski
German and Ghanaian youth in Komenda: Francis Aidoo (left) and Leon Wilken and Lois Fontaine (on the right side).

weltwärts volunteers

“Our vision is to empower the youth”

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by Francis Aidoo
by Leon Wilken
by Lois Fontaine
Retrieving documents from the ruins of Cologne’s historical archive in March 2009.

Governance

Listen to everyone

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by Rüdiger Korff
The TransMilenio in Bogotá carries around 2 million passengers a day.

Bus Rapid Transit

TransMilenio – a model for success

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by Nicholas Hollmann

Experts want aid recipients to take aid agencies at word

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by Hans Dembowski
Bangkok is one of the world’s most congested cities.

Bus Rapid Transit

Most affordable

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by Nicholas Hollmann
The state government is taking serious initiatives to reduce traffic congestion.

Urban traffic

Making traffic flow again

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by Olamide Udoma-Ejorh
Kenyan athlete Abraham Kipton (centre) won the Lagos City Marathon in February.

Megacity

Better governance, better urban life

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by Olamide Udoma-Ejorh