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Solar energy even on cloudy days.

Good News

Solar energy despite clouds, and days off during menstruation

The two pieces of good news this month are about harnessing solar energy even on cloudy days and additional two paid days off for female employees experiencing menstrual pain.

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The right to organise trade unions matters very much: Bangladeshi labour activists protesting in Dhaka in November 2023.

Corporate social responsibility

Why the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) matters very much

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by Armin Paasch
South Africa wants to move away from coal-based power generation: miners in Johannesburg.

Ecological transition

Energy partnerships for the ecological transition

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by Georg Schäfer
Ecuadorians protest in Quito against the government’s measures to abolish fuel price subsidies in October 2019.

International cooperation

Bringing the slogan “just transition” to life

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by Georg Schäfer
Nasir Haji inspects her underwater sponge farm.

Coastal communities

Sustainable sponges

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by Kizito Makoye
Members of the Libyan Red Crescent are working to open roads after the devastating floods in September.

Development policy

Religion needs to be a part of the solution

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by Thomas Rachel
Harvesting rice in Lalitpur, Nepal.

Readers’ opinion

Letters to the editor

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The solar plant in Boundiali is considered a lighthouse project in West Africa and promotes the ambitious climate goals of Côte d’Ivoire.

KfW

Solar modules gleam in the bright African sun

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by Michael Ruffert
Daycare programme for South Sudanese refugee children in Uganda.

Early childhood

A good start

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by Katharina Wilhelm Otieno
Their personal carbon footprints are certainly larger than the 13 tons Russians and the 8.9 tons the Chinese emit annually on average: Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping in Beijing in October.

Climate negotiations

Once again, climate-summit results are “too little, too late”

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by Hans Dembowski
Development Minister Schulze with (from right) Oleksandr Kubrakov, Deputy Prime Minister for the Reconstruction of Ukraine and Minister of Infrastructure and Municipalities, and Maksym Marchenko, Odessa Regional Governor, in front of a bombed-out substation near Odessa.

KfW

“Expansion of renewables offers enormous employment potential”

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by Svenja Schulze
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by Michael Ruffert