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Development and cooperation

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Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit

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Sustainability

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

Ipil Monica Baski

An Indian student expresses her concern about global heating

An Indian student expresses her concern about global heating. The impacts on her country are already quite bad.

Illegal employment
Veronica Frenzel

Life in the shadows

Economic crisis hurts illegal migrants in Spain

Sustainability
Klaus Töpfer

“Tackle two crises at once”

Former head of UNEP puts financial crisis, climate change and mega-city development into context

Relevant reading
Katharina Michaelowa
Katharina Michaelowa
Jean Bourdon

Struck by crisis

Review article: The global financial crisis impact on universal primary education

Comment
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Overblown argument

Dambisa Moyo’s anti-aid argument is completely overblown

Digital divide
Claudia Isabel Rittel

A new era dawns on Africa’s east coast

Faster internet access in eastern Africa

Comment
Hermann E. Ott

A call to collective action

Only heads of states and governments can lead the way out of climate impasse

Renewable energy
Ernst Rauch

Saharan sun to power Europe

Desertec plans to generate power from Sahara sun

Climate
Claudia Isabel Rittel

Final sprint at snail's pace

Climate negotiations inch forward slowly ahead of Copenhagen

Climate protection
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Green roof

Indian energy-efficiency experts take a look at German building practices

Intergovernmental cooperation
Peter Pieck

West Africa sets an example

International Management of the River Niger

Poverty Reduction

The first UN Sustainable Development Goal is to end poverty in all its forms everywhere.

An Indian student expresses her concern about global heating
Biogas innovation: Clean energy and fertiliser for Malawi’s farmers
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Coping with strife, climate impacts and a broken economy
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Gender Equality

In order to achieve gender equality, it is necessary to empower women and girls.

NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women
Improving female entrepreneurs’ self-esteem
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Kenyan military ordered to end HIV discrimination in recruitment
A cookbook reveals the connection of diet and tradition

Governance

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

NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women
Coping with strife, climate impacts and a broken economy
Voodoo allows a holistic view of the cosmos
Brazil’s colonial legacies and current challenges
Indigenous banks collapsing in Zambia: A closer look at Investrust

Sustainability

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

NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women
Coping with strife, climate impacts and a broken economy
Voodoo allows a holistic view of the cosmos
Brazil’s colonial legacies and current challenges
Indigenous banks collapsing in Zambia: A closer look at Investrust