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Sustainability

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

Mexico must include its indigenous population in the tourism sector

Mexico owes many of its tourist attractions to its wealth of indigenous communities. It is important that they are included in the country’s tourism industry in a sustainable, respectful and empowering way.

Comment

Summer of discontent

Malawi’s president is defying donors as well as civil society organisations

Aid effectiveness debate

Demanding democratic ownership

A call for democratic ownership of development programmes

Development and environment

African perspectives

Supporting environment-friendly development in Africa

KfW Development Bank

Appropriate grids

New grid infrastructure is needed to make full use of renewable energies

Multilateral politics

Another opportunity

Ahead of the UN climate summit in Durban, the Green Climate Fund is taking shape

Comment

Dashed hopes

Zimbabwe’s President Mugabe is making life impossible to his coalition partner

Global governance

“To save us from hell”

The lasting lecagy of UN General-Secretary Dag Hammarskjöld 50 years after his death

Advice to Germany’s Federal Government

Roadmap to a green society

German government’s advisory board on global environmental change demands world-wide transition to Green Society

Gender policies

The odds against women

Nigerian trade unions promote gender justice, though not with much bite

Resources

Environmentalism of the poor

The survival of India’s poor depends on environmental protection